On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Saturday 15 November 2008, "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote >> about 'Re: Q: List Policy': >> >On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> On 11/15/08 13:43, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> >>> I was fairly sure that the policy for this list, and most of the >> >>> Debian mailing lists was to NOT CC the poster in replies unless they >> >>> requested it. Is that correct? >> >> >> >> Yup. >> >> >> >> I only ask because I've been getting a lot of CCs recently and I >> >> really, >> >> >> >> >> >> Gmail. It's Evil. >> > >> >How so? When I reply to an email to this list, gmail presumes I want to >> >reply to the sender. I simply change the return address to the list. I >> >manage several forums on which I set Reply-To to the forum address; gmail >> >respects that. If there's a problem here, it's not gmail. >> >> http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html<http://woozle.org/%7Eneale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html>-- >> the body of >> which should actually be read after reading the first two references. > > > > Oh, please. What the heck do you know about the forums I manage? I wasn't > suggesting that Debian forums should set reply-to that way. I was merely > pointing out that misdirected replies are not gmail's fault, but the user's. > > Oh, and you might want to check out > http://www.mindspring.com/~pwiseman/reply-to.html<http://www.mindspring.com/%7Epwiseman/reply-to.html>- > there's more than one viewpoint. > Apologies - I'm out of date there - but I stand by my position that it's users at fault, not gmail or list defaults. Patrick
