On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 November 2008, "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'Re: Q: List Policy': > >On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On 11/15/08 13:43, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >>> I was fairly sure that the policy for this list, and most of the > >>> Debian mailing lists was to NOT CC the poster in replies unless they > >>> requested it. Is that correct? > >> > >> Yup. > >> > >> I only ask because I've been getting a lot of CCs recently and I > >> really, > >> > >> > >> Gmail. It's Evil. > > > >How so? When I reply to an email to this list, gmail presumes I want to > >reply to the sender. I simply change the return address to the list. I > >manage several forums on which I set Reply-To to the forum address; gmail > >respects that. If there's a problem here, it's not gmail. > > http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html<http://woozle.org/%7Eneale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html>-- > the body of > which should actually be read after reading the first two references. Oh, please. What the heck do you know about the forums I manage? I wasn't suggesting that Debian forums should set reply-to that way. I was merely pointing out that misdirected replies are not gmail's fault, but the user's. Oh, and you might want to check out http://www.mindspring.com/~pwiseman/reply-to.html - there's more than one viewpoint. Patrick
