On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:13:23AM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > i think a bigger problem is that mail from lists.debian.org does not use > the standard convention of setting the "reply-to:" header to the list's > post address. This isn't standard, nor is it a good idea. (Yahoo Groups is the only place I know of that still uses it). http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Instead of breaking the list, you should either switch to a mailer that supports replying to mailing lists, or bitch at your current vendor to fix it. Mailing lists have been around for, what, 30+ years now? Missing a reply-to-list function should definately be considered a bug by now. Treat it as such. > mutt does this, netscape/mozilla does this and evolution does this. Mutt does not do this. > the kind people at ximian were good enough to add a "reply to list" > function to evolution to get around _broken_ mailing list software > (like whatever is running lists.debian.org) but this is not > standard. The mailing list is not broken. Ximian Evolution handles mailing lists correctly, kudos to Ximian for implimenting the bloody obvious. > if you are going to be complaining to anyone, you should complain to > whomever runs lists.debian.org, not to the people who accidentially (or > unknowingly) send a "reply to all" whenever they post to this list. No. The list is behaving properly. Deal. -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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