Mailinglist Header - "Reply-To"

thomasg thomas at gstaedtner.net
Fri Apr 18 00:04:53 CEST 2008


Okok, I got it.
My point was more the difference between the lists that is disturbing for
me, as I first have to see from where the mail is coming to decide what
button to press.
However, guess it's to late to reverse this setting for the community list,
so I guess we'll let it be and this thread die.

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Dave Neary <dneary at free.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Joseph Jon Booker wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:27:55 +0200
> > thomasg <thomas at gstaedtner.net> wrote:
> >> The openmoko-devel list doesn't contain a "Reply-To"-tag.
> >> Maybe this should be changed, too.
> >
> > I'll refer you to http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> >
> > Basically, just use 'reply to all' feature in gmail instead (or a
> > smarter mail client)
>
> Whenever this question comes up (and it comes up often), I point people
> to the relevant section of "Producing Open Source Software" from Karl
> Fogel (the whole thing is a must-read for anyone managing a free
> software project).
>
> http://producingoss.com/en/mailing-lists.html#reply-to
>
> The short answer is that this is a religious war, both sides have merit,
> and this list does it without the reply-to (which I personally prefer).
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
> --
> Dave Neary
> dneary at free.fr
> Tel: +33 9 51 13 46 45
> Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13
>
>
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