On Friday 30 May 2003 9:22 am, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
Ian Bell ian@redtommo.com writes:
All three of the groups I subscribed to behaved the way I would expect. Messages appear as From: 'Author' To: mailgroup. Pressing reply sends a message to the group as expected. If I want to reply just to the author I just click on his/her email address. I strongly suspect that all the mail groups hosted by the UK Linux User Groups site behave this way, It is clearly good enough and problem free enough for many other LUGs to have it set up this way. It is clearly the way users expect it to be. I see no compelling reason why our mailing list should be different.
The fact that lots of people do something does not imply it is "problem-free".
Indeed not and I did not make that implication. However Linux users are a vociferous lot and if there were significant problems with it I am sure we would have heard about it.
Answer me this: what do you think Reply-To munging should do to a message that already has a Reply-To field?
I have no idea. I do not even understand the question What I do know is that I belong to about 20 mail groups of one kind or another, hosted on various sites. Except for ALUG they all work the way I would expect. Not once have I ever had a problem with any of them. Not once has anyone on any group (except ALUG) complained about the way the mailer works or has had a problem with it.
I also looked at the mailer set up instructions for new lugmasters on the UK LInux USER Groups web site. There is an option to set the mailer to work the way I prefer or to set it to work the way our group works. So clearly many lugmasters before have faced this question and chosen differently to ALUG.
Ian