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[Rcpp-devel] Admin: add reply-to headers?

3 messages · Darren Cook, Steve Lianoglou, Dirk Eddelbuettel

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Darren Cook
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For this mailing list, hitting the Reply button (in Thunderbird) goes to
the sender.

In many other lists hitting reply goes to the list.(*) The difference is
the addition of the Reply-To header.

R-forge us using mailman, so there is a simple config option somewhere
to control this. (Some lists prefer direct replies, e.g. to stop flame
wars from escalating, which is why the option exists.)

Darren

*: Thunderbird still gives me the Reply and Reply List buttons, they
just go to the same place; to reply only to the user I hit Reply-All,
then delete the list mail address. Or use old-fashioned copy and paste.
I.e. I have to jump through one more loop to reply off-list.
Steve Lianoglou
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Hi Darren,
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Darren Cook <darren at dcook.org> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
You'll notice, however, that most (if not all) R-* mailing lists are
actually configured this way, where the default for a "reply" is to just
include the original author. The debate of which behavior is "correct"
doesn't quite rival the debates of some other well-known topics, such as
emacs vs. vi, but there are quite a few diatribes / soliloquies you can
find on the internet if you care to google for them.

My guess is that this list is intentionally configured to act like the rest
of the R-universe mailing lists.

-steve

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Dirk Eddelbuettel
    

    

      
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On 31 March 2013 at 14:07, Steve Lianoglou wrote:

        
| Hi Darren,
|

        
| On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Darren Cook <darren at dcook.org> wrote:

        
| 
|     For this mailing list, hitting the Reply button (in Thunderbird) goes to
|     the sender.
| 
|     In many other lists hitting reply goes to the list.(*) The difference is
|     the addition of the Reply-To header.
| 
| 
| You'll notice, however, that most (if not all) R-* mailing lists are actually
| configured this way, where the default for a "reply" is to just include the
| original author. The debate of which behavior is "correct" doesn't quite rival
| the debates of some other well-known topics, such as emacs vs. vi, but there
| are quite a few diatribes / soliloquies you can find on the internet if you
| care to google for them.
| 
| My guess is that this list is intentionally configured to act like the rest of
| the R-universe mailing lists.

Spot on. For that very reason I have no intention whatsoever of changing the default.

Dirk