Re: First steps in packaging
On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 11:46:21AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, David Z Maze wrote:
> > > Your mailer doesn't have a "reply to all" button? Get a better one,
> > > Debian has lots.
> >
> > The problem we're discussing, though, is that "reply to all" means exactly
> > that - to *all*.
>
> Hmm.. I recall "reply to list" being mentioned, not "reply to all" which is
> different. I've already deleted David's mail, but is that really what he
> said?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200304/msg00265.html
and
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200304/msg00277.html
Or would you like to accuse me of tampering with the list archives while
you're at it?
Out of interest, are there any MUAs which have a separate "reply to list"
function?
> > Of course, depending on your POV, it might be seen as less resource
> > intensive just to set up a procmail duplicate-killer instead of trying to
> > educate the entire Internet on proper e-mail technique.
>
> Duplicate removal is easy, yes, but if you were to reply to me *and* the
> list, the mail sent directly to me will usually get to me first and so the
> one sent to the list will be removed. This means that it will end up in my
> normal inbox rather than my mailbox for said list, which is slightly
> annoying.
It depends on how you're filtering your lists. I get a personal copy in my
inbox and one to the list (which is what you're talking about) because I
filter based on the headers added by the list software. It could be PITA I
suppose, although I don't think it would bother me because I'm pretty
careful these days about who an e-mail is going to (after some oopses in the
eldar days). If you filter based on procmail's _TO (is that the macro for
it?) or something like that, then both copies should (I imagine) end up in
the folder for the mailing list.
Duplicates, though, don't bother me - I figure it's not an excessive hassle,
and I normally go through all my mailboxes at once, so I should be able to
remember which messages I've already replied to.
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