Re: CC's on this mailing list

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (Yves Arrouye) wrote:
> Ian Jackson writes:
>  > Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Re: CC's on this mailing list"):
>  > ...
>  > > I've noticed on some other lists that everything that is posted on the
>  > > list has From: set to the original sender, Reply-To: to the list address
>  > > and Cc: deleted.
>  > > 
>  > > This is actually very nice. Would it be hard (or just a bad idea) to
>  > > put this in the debian list server?
>  > 
>  > This makes it hard in some mailers to reply to just the poster.
> 
> Then actually it makes it hard in these mailes to reply to just the
> list. Since the bulk of the list is made of public discussions done
> by replying to it, this may be a good reason to have it be the default.
> After all, if you want to just reply to the author, you have to do
> something more complicated once, and after that you reply to him normally
> during the private discussion. With the actual scheme, the complicated
> thing must be done each time you want to make a public answer.

That's how I feel too, but you said it better than I could.

Mike.
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