List etiquette

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Saturday 17 June 2006 11:20, ben <ben at cvrse.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:59:20 +1000
>
> Andrew <andrew at swinndesign.com> wrote:
> > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > > Can everyone please remove their 'Reply-To' headers from their
> > > messages? Every time I hit the 'Reply' button in my mail client, I
> > > have to manually delete the address in the 'To' field and add the
> > > ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com list address. Replies should go to the
> > > list by default, not directly to the author (you can CC the author
> > > as well if you like).
> >
> > I believed this to be a problem with the list software setup. I have
> > seen other people have the same problem. I too also have to manually
> > insert the list address.
>
> I dont believe this to be a list problem as all the correct headers are
> in place to allow you to reply to list +/or author. personally i
> include a reply-to: header so that i'm automatically cc: on any
> thread i reply to as i may miss the reply on mailing list. Sridhar
> there's an easy solution to your problem instead of replying using 'r',
> use 'l' to reply to the mailing list or 'a' to reply to authors and
> mailing list.

I am aware of those, but that is a workaround. Replies should by default go to 
the list. The "Reply-To" header does not affect the functionality of 
the "Reply to authors" function, so it is pointless.

> on the topic of etiquette wasnt there something todo with 
> not starting new threads within others?

As you should have noticed, I changed the subject header when posting the 
original message.

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