Sounder List Functionality

[Randy Gloden]

I read the opinion from the link you quoted and I see where he he coming 
from.  Although the "Principle of Least" supprise he mentions does not 
work the way I (and evidently other on the list) think.

I happen to like Thunderbird, and indeed in this program a Reply-All 
does reply back to the list.  I guess in the end, what is important is 
that the list functions in a manner that works best for the specific 
people that use it.  About 1/5 of those that have responded to me thus 
far have been via a direct reply.

Other lists I'm on don't seem to have a problem configured the other 
way, but hey, I can live with it as is.  It's not that big of deal, just 
something I experienced differently on another list which I thought 
worked better.

---------Randy

Martijn van de Streek wrote:

>On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Randy Gloden wrote:
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>>So . . . can we re-configure the list to send out messages with the 
>>"reply-to"  or "from" fields set to "sounder at list.ubuntu.com.
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>>I can think of several reasons while it may be set up this way, (perhaps 
>>some subscribers filter out addresses of those they don't feel are 
>>worthy to be heard), but none I think warrant this configuration.
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>Changing the Reply-To field is considered to _bad_ by quite a few people. It
>would be better if mail clients understood the proper headers, and did
>proper list replies based on them. See
>http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html for more details on this.
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>Mutt understands the headers, evolution (using plugins) too. 
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>Martijn
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