Re: Q: List Policy

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 11/15/08 21:21, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > On 11/15/08 13:43, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >
> > > I was fairly sure that the policy for this list, and most of the Debian
> > > mailing lists was to NOT CC the poster in replies unless they requested it.
> > >  Is that correct?
> > Yup.
> >
> >  I only ask because I've been getting a lot of CCs recently and I really,
> > Gmail.  It's Evil.
>
> How so?  When I reply to an email to this list, gmail presumes I want to
> reply to the sender.  I simply change the return address to the list.

Reply-to Munging Considered Harmful.

>                                                                         I
> manage several forums on which I set Reply-To to the forum address; gmail
> respects that.

If it didn't, it would be worse than it already is.

>                 If there's a problem here, it's not gmail.

It isn't that difficult to create Reply-to-List functionality.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

If you don't agree with me, you are worse than Hitler!!!