Marc Aurele La France writes: > > If you attend a meeting and introduce a new agenda item, it behooves >you< > to remain at that meeting at least until the new item is discussed. Not > doing so is just plain rude, and wastes everyone else's time. > > Why do people think mailing lists are any different?
But we say nowhere, that this is a mailing list. It wasn't a real mailing list until a while ago, it was just an alias distributing the messages to a number of people. When the server crashes we say: "Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED]" We don't say: "Please visit http://www.xfree86.org/..... to subscribe to our support mailing list." Furthermore I thought the idea of having an open list was to receive reports from people not subscribed. Therefore, I'd recommend to either find a solution or reconsider the policy to run [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an open mailing list. I would recommend to script that checks if the original author is subscribed and if not, add him to the Reply-To: field. I'd favor fixing the problem. One could have a script that rewrites the incoming mail as a procmail filter with the following heuristic: if (Reply-To: exists) don't do anything; if (From: is subscribed) don't do anything; else Add a: "Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], <address-from-From:>" > > > One of us wants to anser him, hits 'group reply' and because of the > > Reply-To: only containing the list the answer goes only to the list. > > But since the original author isn't subscribed he *doesn't* get the > > answer. > > ... because he didn't stick around long enough to hear it. That's his > choice. > > Remember: you cannot help those who will not help themselves. > I have no idea who is subscribed or not. How should I know if I'm only wasting my time? Of course I could add everybody I reply to to the Cc: field. Just to get flamed why I do this. Egbert. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
