On Friday 09 June 2017 10:47:29 Nicolas George wrote: > Le primidi 21 prairial, an CCXXV, Charlie Kravetz a écrit : > > When replying to the mailing list, hit reply. Do not use "Reply to > > All", since that sends individual emails to the person you are > > answering. > > This recommendation is unsustainable and should be eliminated from the > guidelines. It only exists because the mailing-list server is not > configured correctly. > > The reply-to-list feature is flawed because it requires the user to > give special attention each time "am I replying to a personal mail or > to a mailing-list"? The correct behaviour should be the default, > always, because that is the only way to minimize mistakes. This is > what happens with mailing-list servers properly configured. > > When replying to a mail, any mail, use reply-to-all, unless you > actively know you want to reply to an unusual subset of recipients. > (But heed the reply-to headers, of course.) > > If somebody complain, tell them to set up their mail headers, just as > I did mine. > > Regards,
Or use an email agent that does properly support a "reply to mailing list" function. Such as this old kmail still included as part of the tde (trinity) desktop. I do not use the reply-all format unless I am aware the OP is not subscribed. Those mailing lists I am subscribed to that do not require the poster to be subscribed are also flooded with spam. And debian-user is one such list, and because of that, and my ISP's reject policy, I get threats from bendel of being unsubscribed because of bounces. It will never happen because when I get the bounce msg from bendel, its obvious why mail.shentel.net rejected it. IMO debian needs to fix that, but its been made very clear that they will not go to a subscription required to post model. Ever. Sigh.... It is what it is. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
