I stand corrected. I could have sworn it was ‘from’ the list, but alas...
Regards, Adrien > On Apr 10, 2018, at 7:11 PM, William Bixby <wbi...@usa.net> wrote: > > Adrien, my headers for your message show this email is from you, not the list: > From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> > Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.3 \(3445.6.18\)) > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:17:55 -0500 > To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix > List-Id: General Accounting Discussions <gnucash-user.gnucash.org> > > > > On 04/10/2018 06:17 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> The mail already *is* from the list. >> This can get flubbed when people start using reply-all and leaving the >> original senders in the mix. As this continues in the thread, individual >> e-mail addresses start bouncing around between To and CC and the list >> address usually gets relegated to CC permanently. But it doesn’t matter >> because one can always set their filters to include To, CC and From (if not >> also, or instead, reply-to) and there should be no issue. >> There is a case for reply-all, but it involves cross-posted messages (to >> other lists) or one-off participants who aren’t list members. This is pretty >> rare here. (Occasionally you’ll see a message posted on both -dev and -user >> but not often and so many are on both) I don’t think I’ve seen any >> cross-postings to outside lists. On the off chance a non-member participates >> (with moderator approval) it would likely be obvious and you could include >> their personal address. >> Regards, >> Adrien >>> On Apr 10, 2018, at 4:38 PM, Dale Alspach <alspac...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Question for those who want the [GNC] prefix: >>> Would having the email from be from the list (gnucash-user@gnucash.org) >>> instead of the user (original sender) serve as well? >>> >>> This would also help with the "remember to reply to the list" issue. Reply, >>> Reply-all, Reply-list would include the list address. >>> I believe the mailing list software would still put the original sender >>> address in the headers so that an off-list reply would be possible. >>> >>> Some view this type of address munging as being bad but I believe that in >>> the case of gnucash-user this is the de facto preference of the maintainers >>> and developers. >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, listreader wrote: >>>> >>>> Your tally probably doesn't mean what you think it means. In my >>>>> experience, far more people are likely to complain about 'changes' they >>>>> don't like than are people who approve or are neutral about the same >>>>> 'changes'. Like on a ratio of 10 to 1 or greater. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Please add my vote to the neutral category. I subscribe to about a dozen >>>> mail lists, most use a list-related prefix in brackets; a couple don't. >>>> Because incoming messages are sorted into list-specific files the only time >>>> the prepended tags matter is when multiple lists cover the same topic. >>>> >>>> GnuCash is the only bookkeeping application I use so a prepended tag >>>> makes >>>> no difference to me. But, for those who don't automatically sort incoming >>>> messages it could well be helpful. >>>> >>>> If having it present does no harm there's no reason to remove it, in my >>>> opinion. If you're reading e-mail on a phone, watch, or other small device >>>> and cannot see the entire subject line you probably have the ability to >>>> scroll horizontally as well as vertically. >>>> >>>> Rich >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> gnucash-user mailing list >>>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >>>> ----- >>>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >>> ----- >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -- > Bill Bixby > Laconia NH > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
