[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Doug Currie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Please set the list so default reply is to the list. >> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html >> > > One finds various screeds such as the one Doug references > above. And on the configuration screen for GNU mailman, > it "strongly recommends" that replys be to the author and > not to the list. > > And yet nearly everyone I know loaths that behavior. The > overwhelming majority of users prefer mailing list replies > to go back to the mailing list *only*. > > I think we have things configured now so that replies go > back to the list instead of the to original author. There > are likely other settings that will need to be adjusted as > we move forward. Please let me know if you see anything > unusual. > > In a semi-related rant: Setting up a new mailing list is > *way* harder than it needs to be. Way, Way harder. In order > to go from ezmlm to GNU mailman, we had to prototype the > setup on a separate machine, then spend a day debugging > the setup after transferring it to the production machine. > A day. For a mailing list. And this is with mailing list > software that is suppose to be *easy* to configure. I > tremble to thing what the difficult-to-configure software > must be like. > > To tie this back to the original question, when people who > write mail handling and mailing list software get their > programs to the point where I can set up a new mail system > and a new mailing list manager on a system in 15 minutes or > less with reasonable assurance that I have not opened major > security holes in the system, then, perhaps, I will be in a > better mood to listen to their polemics on Reply-To field > munging. > > -- > D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Some very apt comments. Having been similarly irritated by the mindless complexity of setting up mailman to manage a simple list I empathize. The ease and simplicity of installing Sqlite is in stark comparison and no accident but the reward of a lot of discipline in paring away complexity, filtering out ornamentation and responding thoughtfully to user's experiences and suggestions. JS There are no victims, only volunteers. > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
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