Daniel Stone writes: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:03:49AM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote: > > No, [EMAIL PROTECTED] isn't a members only list. > > It is for everybody to send in support questions. > > We don't require these people to subscribe themselves. > > > > One could probably think about a 'opt-in' method where > > people who are not subscribed have to respond to notification > > before their message is sent to the list. > > Normally I suggest spamassassin, but the only false positives I've seen > in the last six months have all been posts to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :\
We do run spamassassin. Guess what would happen if we didn't. > > > At least for me this creates the problem that when I resond to an > > email on this list (doing a 'respond all') my mailer only uses the > > addresses from the Reply-To: and the Cc: fields. > > Which mailer do you use? Mutt, KMail and Evolution (the former is my > primary, the latter my secondary, mail client) all deal with this > situation perfectly. I'm using vm in xemacs. In your message the Reply-To: field form the original message appears in Cc: > > I also hope like hell Mailman isn't munging Reply-To, because that's > just *wrong*. Hm, I don't know what you would call munging, it puts the list address into the Reply-To. > > Umm, it's an MUA thing. The list manager is *not* to dictate to the MUA > what to do - group reply should send to all of From, To and Cc, > excluding yourself. In Mutt, the list of your addresses is maintained by > 'set alternates <regexp>'. I have just checked the replies on the xfree86@ list. Most of them contain just the [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses. > > > If we can agree that we want something like this and on what > > we want we can probably find a volunteer who'd hack this for > > us. > > I think you've come up with the wrong solution to the wrong problem, > honestly; what mailer do you use? According to RFC 822 my mailer does the right thing. The Reply-To: field has precedence over the From: field. Egbert. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
