On 08-Sep-07 13:20:12, MJ Ray wrote:
Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
On a different topic, what would it take for you to just reply to the list? It appears that you don't honour the posters wishes (M-F-T was set to the list...), and although we don't have a currently list policy, I would assume the same list policy as the debian mailing lists - i.e. don't cc the sender, just post to the list *unless* they have explicetly asked to be copied.
I changed my preset for all user group lists a while ago because of problems (at mailman.lug.org.uk and lugog.org.uk among others) which were delaying messages. Often user group mailing list messages are cries for help and sometimes it's important that messages get to the recipient fast (directly), as well as fairly reliably (by the list).
I can change it back for ALUG if people want, but I didn't think there were strong opinions about this here. Are there?
M-F-T is a buggy non-standard header (see IETF DRUMS WG discussions of it) and mail clients should ignore it. If someone has strong views on where replies should go, put it in your sig, not hidden in DJB's pet header.
In my opinion, one should not depend on one's mailer's settings nor on message headers for replying. I adopt a flexible policy:
Reply to list, and not to OP nor Cc: addresses, UNLESS Sender has reqested a private reply/copy OR It strikes me that it sould be useful for the sender (or others) to receive a private copy directly (before the list gets round to distributing it) -- e.g. it looks like they need the answer NOW! (or Cc: addresses may be colleagues of the OP who may not be on the list, for instance, and one judges it would be useful for them too).
Normally (e.g. to ALUG), if I click on "Reply" I get a question:
Include all recipients?
If I click on "No" it goes only to the OP.
If I click on "Yes" I get the OP's address (as "To:"), the list address as "Cc:", and any other Cc: addresses. I can then choose which to delete, and if replying to the list I will change its "Cc:" to "To:".
For some lists (e.g. a Google Groups list I'm on), the initial response to clicking "Reply" is the question:
Reply to sender (blah@blah.blah = list address)?
If I click "Yes" at that, then it simply goes to the list. If I click on "No" I get the choice of who to reply to (list vs OP vs any others).
So, in any case, I simply need to decide what is the most appropriate modality for reply. That's a matter for my judgement.
And, if there happens to be a strict list policy (which I know about ... ), then I can choose to adhere to that.
So, therefore, absolutely no problem! The issues being discussed in this thread do not arise (unless I make a wrong judgement).
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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