[gtkada] Administrative: change of behavior of the list

[Preben Randhol]

Arnaud Charlet <charlet at ACT-Europe.FR> wrote on 21/01/2004 (11:09) :
> For your information,
> 
> I've slightly changed the configuration of the gtkada list so that now
> by default, the reply is no longer set to the list but to the
> poster, as is common usage on most mailing lists.

Oh?

Why set the Reply-To at all?

> So please be sure to do a "group reply", or "reply all" when answering
> messages on this list, unless you indeed want to reply only to the original
> poster.

Why should one do a group reply? If I try this then it sends a copy to
the reply-to and to everybody on the Cc: list, but not the mailinglist
unless it is in the Cc: list.

I do not understand the reason for this change. I never had a problem
following the thread before, but now it certainly will be a problem. The
reason is that people will press Reply (or Reply All) and they will send
a mail to that person, but nothing to the list which makes the rest of
us unaware of what has been said or not.

Personally I use mutt and mutt fixes this behaviour. I can even change
the Reply-To field, but for all the others out there... Well I guess one
now will get at least two copies of every message on the list.

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