Re: [sqlite] Testing the new SQLite mailing list

[Bert Verhees]

Mrs. Brisby wrote:

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 04:24, Paul Smith wrote:
 

At 19:43 16/10/2003, Bernie Cosell wrote:
   

On 16 Oct 2003 at 17:08, Paul Smith wrote:

     

At 16:44 16/10/2003, you wrote:
       

I prefer the 'reply to sender' default rather than
'reply to all'. ...
         

It really depends what you see the purpose of the list being.

If replies only go back to the original message sender, then there are
quite a few disadvantages:
       

The problem with this is that it presumes [by your use of 'only'] that the 
list
membership is either entirely [or primarily] made of folk who cannot 
manage to
do anything fancier/cleverer with their email clients than hit "reply".  now,
if you had said that "..._some_ replies will go back ...unintentionally..."
that'd be closer to the fact, I think...
     

I'm not too fussed either way - but I find it much more convenient to have 
'reply-to-list'

(One of the things that REALLY annoys me is receiving duplicate emails - 
you'll notice that if I reply to a list where I have to reply-all, then 
I'll always edit the To/Cc fields so it only goes back to the list.)
   

Fix your email client, or use one that isn't broken. Tell others to do
the same.
Fixing an email-client is not always an option.
Many emailclients respond to the Reply To header, like described in RFC822
"the presence of the  "Reply-to"  field  SUPER-SEDES the sending of a reply to the person named in the "From" field."

My opinion is, let this maillist work (if possible) according this RFC, 
and most people are happy

kind regards
Bert Verhees
My mail client doesn't do what you describe (I have a Reply-to-list
button), and it can't figure out how to do "the right thing" if the
mailing list munges up the headers (by removing important information).
Check the archive; http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html is
absolutely correct. Reply-To munging is to work around bugs in broken
mail clients.
Either fix your email client, or use one that isn't broken.

Or of course, you could do as you suggest and use another feature and
edit the recipient-list manually :)
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