On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:03:49AM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote:
> No, [EMAIL PROTECTED] isn't a members only list.
> It is for everybody to send in support questions.
> We don't require these people to subscribe themselves.
> 
> One could probably think about a 'opt-in' method where 
> people who are not subscribed have to respond to notification 
> before their message is sent to the list.

Normally I suggest spamassassin, but the only false positives I've seen
in the last six months have all been posts to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :\

> At least for me this creates the problem that when I resond to an 
> email on this list (doing a 'respond all') my mailer only uses the 
> addresses from the Reply-To: and the Cc: fields.

Which mailer do you use? Mutt, KMail and Evolution (the former is my
primary, the latter my secondary, mail client) all deal with this
situation perfectly.

I also hope like hell Mailman isn't munging Reply-To, because that's
just *wrong*.

> If the original author hasn't added himself to Cc: and is not
> on the list he will not get the reply unless I add it by hand
> - which I often forget.
> I don't know if any of this can be fixed in mailman but I'm
> sure it could be fixed by some mail pre- and post-processing.

Umm, it's an MUA thing. The list manager is *not* to dictate to the MUA
what to do - group reply should send to all of From, To and Cc,
excluding yourself. In Mutt, the list of your addresses is maintained by
'set alternates <regexp>'.

> If we can agree that we want something like this and on what
> we want we can probably find a volunteer who'd hack this for 
> us.

I think you've come up with the wrong solution to the wrong problem,
honestly; what mailer do you use?

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.kde.org - http://www.debian.org - http://www.xwin.org
"Configurability is always the best choice when it's pretty simple to implement"
  -- Havoc Pennington, gnome-list

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