[Ffmpeg-devel] reply-to headers and the mailinglist

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:58:01AM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Erik Slagter <erik at slagter.name> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 18:20 +0200, Fran?ois Revol wrote:
> >
> >> > Setting relpy-to to the list addrss only makes it difficult to reply
> >> > off-list, if that's what you actually want to do.
> >> 
> >> But it's not what I usually want to do.
> >> 
> >> If I want to do that I just "Reply to Sender" which does the correct 
> >> thing.
> >
> > Exactly. The default action for a mailing list is to reply to all, not
> > an individual, otherwise I could hardly call it a mailing list.
> 
> There is no such thing as a default action.  The users has several

Yes there is. It's called the "reply" command and it replies to the
address in the "Reply-to:" header, otherwise the address in the
"From:" header.

> commands to choose from, and they do different things.  The normal
> thing to do when replying to a list posting, is to use the "reply to
> all" function, which does the right thing, independently of any
> reply-to header.

Not it does not! It will reply both to the list AND the sender, which
doubles the mail traffic and pisses the sender (me) off to no end!!!!

> > Also using the definition of the url
> > (http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html) means that about half
> > of the mailers is broken. Reminds me of a dutch proverb: "The whole is
> > mad, said the lunatic." 
> >
> > I am not going to switch to another mailer to be more correct according
> > to some people.
> 
> Are you saying Evolution doesn't have a  "reply to all" function?  I
> would consider that broken, ideed.

Reply to all is NOT THE CORRECT COMMAND! "Reply to list" is the
correct command, but very few mailers have this, and normally you have
to tell the mailer all the lists you're subscribed to in order for it
to work.

Rich