[ubuntu-uk] Guidelines for the mailing list (and Reply-To munging)

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Mon Jan 29 22:51:03 GMT 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:48 +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:46 +0000, Toby Smithe wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:30 +0000, James Dalley wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > And that was a top post. I'm going to stop spamming now.
> > > > 
> > >  I know as being fairly new to mailing lists that there are rules
> > > that you should adhere to for everyones sake, but most web based
> > > email clients automatically set you up to write at the top. So i think
> > > it 
> > > is important if you are new to read the ettique page posted. 
> > 
> > I'm not new. I'm just guilty. :)
> > 
> > I actually meant to send that as a reply to mdke's post only. However,
> > this list has reply-to munging
> > ( http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html ) which is annoying,
> > and as a result, it got sent to the list. Why is it that this feature is
> > turned on?
> > 
> 
> Works fine here*. Get a decent mail client ;)

Erm no: he's right. Reply-to is set to the list address on list emails.
Personally I don't mind it, myself.

Matt
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