Frank Lin PIAT <fp...@klabs.be> writes: > If the sender of the previous email is subscribed to the list: > If I select "Reply": > To=mailing-list > CC= > If I select "Reply to all": > To=mailing-list > CC=Previous email's recipient. > > If the sender of the previous mail was NOT subscribed to the list. > If I select "Reply": > To=sender,mailing-list > CC= > If I select "Reply to all": > To=sender,mailing-list > CC=Previous email's recipient. > > => Do you agree with this? Can we forward it to list-masters?
I either don't agree with this or think that you're leaving out a function that's important. Gnus has two reply functions, which it calls "reply" and "follow-up" using the old Usenet definitions. Its default behavior without any configuration is: Reply: To: sender Cc: Follow-Up: To: sender Cc: mailing-list Note the capacity for private reply. Any system that doesn't allow for a private reply to the sender is unacceptably broken in my opinion. If you configure Gnus with knowledge of the mailing list address, as I've done for all the Debian mailing lists, it will instead do: Follow-Up: To: mailing-list Cc: and there is a separate "really wide reply" function that will copy the sender anyway. It also honors Mail-Followup-To, for whatever that's worth. I don't really care what the "default" action is, but one of the standard reply options in any mail client should send a private reply to a public mailing list message. > There are a few more things I am pretty sure: > * Joe User should not be expected to know about "Reply to list" option. > (Joe User only has 2 buttons: "reply" and "reply to all") If this is the case, then your proposal above is unacceptable since it leaves Joe User without a way to reply privately. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
