[OpenSIPS-Users] mailing list reply-to : list or sender

Victor Gamov vit at lipetsk.ru
Tue Aug 11 09:07:11 CEST 2009


I read many list many years and OpenSER-based software lists (OpenSER, 
OpenSIPS) are only lists where I send reply to poster when I press 
"reply" button.

If I send my questions into list than I expect to read answers at list 
but not as my personal email.

IMHO

On 05.08.2009 17:58, Brett Nemeroff wrote:
> I agree with you here. Even if it's "different" than the way most of
> your other lists work, "Poster" simply makes more sense. And I don't
> think another way should be picked because the poster might do the wrong
> thing. I think it's up to all of us to reply to the list as appropriate.
>
> For me, If I'm reading a message from a specific person, and I hit
> "reply" I'm replying to that person. If I hit "reply to all" I'm
> replying to everyone. This just makes sense to me.
>
> And if you set to "The List", it's very hard to reply to the poster.
> Since neither reply to reply-all will get you the email of the poster.
> -Brett
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Dan Pascu <dan at ag-projects.com
> <mailto:dan at ag-projects.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Wednesday 05 August 2009, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
>      > "normal" is a fuzzy word. I can do the change, not a problem, but
>     just
>      > to past what mailman says:
>      >
>      > "Where are replies to list messages directed? Poster is *strongly*
>      > recommended for most mailing lists.  ->  Poster     This list
>      > Explicit address "
>      >
>      > Currently is "Poster"(which is recommended) and you suggest "This
>     List".
>      >
>      > To be honest I consider logical the "Poster" setting as primarily I'm
>      > talking with a person on the list and not to the list.
>      >
>      > But any other opinions are welcome here.
>
>     "The List" is a worse choice than "Poster" because it limits my
>     choice of whom
>     I want to reply to and makes it more complicated to reply to the
>     sender alone.
>     When using "The List", if I want to reply to the sender alone, I need to
>     employ manual copy/paste of his address, after I manually delete the
>     list
>     address which was automatically added when replying. This is awkward and
>     annoying.
>
>     With "Poster", I can easily use reply, to reply to the sender alone,
>     or "reply
>     all" to send to both the poster and the list and the list will make
>     sure the
>     poster will receive a single copy anyway.
>
>     I don't think nowadays it could be an issue to anyone, as I can't
>     imagine a
>     mail user agent without a "Reply all" function.




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