Re: [sigrok-devel] epidemy of unsocial messages to mailing lists (reply-to)

2021-09-02 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi Gerhard, On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 10:43:27PM +0300, Paul Fertser wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 09:23:08AM +0100, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > > On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 20:01 +0100, sig...@rkta.de wrote: > > > > > > Solution seems to be to configure mailman right or use > > > something more sane. > >

Re: [sigrok-devel] epidemy of unsocial messages to mailing lists (reply-to)

2021-03-29 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi Gerhard, On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 09:23:08AM +0100, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 20:01 +0100, sig...@rkta.de wrote: > > > > Solution seems to be to configure mailman right or use > > something more sane. > > Thank you for digging this up. That answer was very helpful in > under

Re: [sigrok-devel] epidemy of unsocial messages to mailing lists (reply-to)

2021-03-25 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 20:01 +0100, sig...@rkta.de wrote: > > Solution seems to be to configure mailman right or use > something more sane. Thank you for digging this up. That answer was very helpful in understanding the nature and the cause of the issue. Still it's interesting why some messages ar

Re: [sigrok-devel] epidemy of unsocial messages to mailing lists (reply-to)

2021-03-24 Thread sigrok
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 01:55:46PM +0100, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > There is a recent(?) climb in the number of messages where the > headers look like this: > > | From: A user's name via sigrok-devel > | To: sigrok-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > | Subject: [sigrok-devel] some subject > | Rep

Re: [sigrok-devel] epidemy of unsocial messages to mailing lists (reply-to)

2021-03-24 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 15:13 +0100, Uffe Jakobsen wrote: > > I've seen it as well... > > I don't think that users do this in bad intent. > > It is perfectly legal to address a mailing list with Reply To set... That's well understood. Reply-To is owned by the sending user. No transfer agent or list

Re: [sigrok-devel] epidemy of unsocial messages to mailing lists (reply-to)

2021-03-24 Thread Paul Fertser
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 03:59:11PM +, Kevin Grant wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 03:37:27PM +, Kevin Grant wrote: > > Ironically, if I hit 'reply' to Gerhard's email, the response is not going > to > the list, but only to Gerhard. > > Yes, that's how it's supposed to wor

Re: [sigrok-devel] epidemy of unsocial messages to mailing lists (reply-to)

2021-03-24 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 15:37 +, Kevin Grant wrote: > > Ironically, if I hit 'reply' to Gerhard's email, the response is not > going to the list, but only to Gerhard. What's ironic about that? That's exactly how it's meant to be. A message is _from_ its sender, and addressed to the receiver(s).

Re: [sigrok-devel] epidemy of unsocial messages to mailing lists (reply-to)

2021-03-24 Thread Kevin Grant
On 2021-03-24 15:43, Paul Fertser wrote: Hi Kevin, On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 03:37:27PM +, Kevin Grant wrote: Ironically, if I hit 'reply' to Gerhard's email, the response is not going to the list, but only to Gerhard. Yes, that's how it's supposed to work with mailing lists. You press "

Re: [sigrok-devel] epidemy of unsocial messages to mailing lists (reply-to)

2021-03-24 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi Kevin, On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 03:37:27PM +, Kevin Grant wrote: > Ironically, if I hit 'reply' to Gerhard's email, the response is not going to > the list, but only to Gerhard. Yes, that's how it's supposed to work with mailing lists. You press "reply" to answer the sender, and "reply all"

Re: [sigrok-devel] epidemy of unsocial messages to mailing lists (reply-to)

2021-03-24 Thread Kevin Grant
On 2021-03-24 12:55, Gerhard Sittig wrote: This is not meant to pick on any individual subscriber, they may not even be aware (never learned how to use email properly). But it's something that bothers me, because it breaks the very point of having a mailing list where several subscribers work to

Re: [sigrok-devel] epidemy of unsocial messages to mailing lists (reply-to)

2021-03-24 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
On 24/03/2021 13.55, Gerhard Sittig wrote: There is a recent(?) climb in the number of messages where the headers look like this: | From: A user's name via sigrok-devel | To: sigrok-devel@lists.sourceforge.net | Subject: [sigrok-devel] some subject | Reply-To: user's name again W