Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply-to options not working

2018-01-29 Thread Jordan Brown
On 1/29/2018 9:56 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > (And that's another of the key items:  the "Reply-To: " > > configuration makes it *difficult* to reply to the author, and that > > seems just plain rude.) > > Why? Nobody is talking about taking away anybody's Reply-To-Author > function, and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply-to options not working

2018-01-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jordan Brown writes: > make everybody happy That's a longer way of expressing "right." I'm *still* not interested in that. > I can only hope that whatever standards develop make both "reply to > author" and "reply to all" convenient. No MUA is going to remove either of those functions. >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply-to options not working

2018-01-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jordan Brown writes: > You were complaining that in some list configurations you will tend to > get multiple copies of a message - one directly to you, and one via the > list. > > I was suggesting that one way to address that complaint would be for > your mail client to detect the duplicati

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply-to options not working

2018-01-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Chip Davis writes: > I have a constant problem with well-meaning, but essentially > ignorant, email users who, upon seeing a "Reply To:" field in their > MUA's setup screen, dutifully fill it in with their email address. > Then they complain that even though they "replied to the list", > thei

Re: [Mailman-Users] Users set to digest, but still getting non-digest?

2018-01-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 01/29/2018 10:50 AM, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > On 1/29/2018 8:33 AM, Andrew White, PhD wrote: >>     Searched the archives, but I'm hitting a wall. I have users who are set >> to >>     digest (when I look at their profile I can see that they are), but still >>     are getting individual list email

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply-to options not working

2018-01-29 Thread Jordan Brown
On 1/28/2018 8:40 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > I believe that many users think > of mailing lists as fundamentally different from personal email, and > they would like their MUAs to distinguish automatically. This > algorithm, I believe, would do a pretty good job of that. This particular us

Re: [Mailman-Users] Users set to digest, but still getting non-digest?

2018-01-29 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 1/29/2018 8:33 AM, Andrew White, PhD wrote: Searched the archives, but I'm hitting a wall. I have users who are set to digest (when I look at their profile I can see that they are), but still are getting individual list emails, and not getting digest at all. Any hints on places

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply-to options not working

2018-01-29 Thread Chip Davis
Apologies for mangling my description of the problem. The senders with the hard-coded "Reply-To:" are not the ones complaining that their emails aren't going to the list, it's those who thought they replied to the list who complain that it went as a private message back to the OP. IMHO, all

[Mailman-Users] Users set to digest, but still getting non-digest?

2018-01-29 Thread Andrew White, PhD
Searched the archives, but I'm hitting a wall. I have users who are set to digest (when I look at their profile I can see that they are), but still are getting individual list emails, and not getting digest at all. Any hints on places to look to problem solve this? I had some permission

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply-to options not working

2018-01-29 Thread Chip Davis
I am loathe to weigh in on this architectural design discussion, but it seems to ignore the PEBCAK effect. I admin about a dozen _discussion_ Mailman lists as a mitzvah for various organizations I'm fond of, none of which are well-populated with computer scientists. Exhibit A is the number of