Re: Annoying Reply-To - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Oct 23, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Collin Kidder wrote:

> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>
>>> Mikkel is right, every other well-organized mailing list I've ever
>>> been on handles things the sensible way he suggests, but everybody
>>> on his side who's been on lists here for a while already knows
>>> this issue is a dead horse.  Since I use the most advanced e-mail
>>> client on the market I just work around that the settings here are
>>> weird, it does annoy me a bit anytime I stop to think about it
>>> though.
>>>
>>
>> I think this is the crux of the problem --- if I subscribed to
>> multiple
>> email lists, and some have "rely" going to the list and some have
>> "reply" going to the author, I would have to think about the right
>> reply
>> option every time I send email.
>>
>> Fortunately, every email list I subscribe to and manage behaves
>> like the
>> Postgres lists.
>>
>>
>
> I find it difficult to believe that every list you subscribe to
> behaves as the Postgres list does. Not that I'm doubting you, just
> that it's difficult given that the PG list is the ONLY list I've
> ever been on to use Reply as just replying to the author. Every
> other list I've ever seen has reply as the list address and requires
> Reply All to reply to the original poster. Thus, I would fall into
> the category of people who have to think hard in order to do the
> correct thing when posting to this list.

I have the same experience, only PG list seems to behave different.

In my humble opinion I feel that I am subscribed to the list (It also
says on the bottom Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org
)), so a reply (not reply all --- remove original author) should go
back to the list where I am subscribed at, in in my opinion the source
is the list aswell (that's why I am getting it in the first place).

>
>
> I've checked and I can't even find an option to make Thunderbird
> (the client I use in windows) reply to the list properly with the
> reply button (it just cannot be set that way.) You must use Reply
> All. You might say that that makes Thunderbird crippled but I see it
> more as a sign that nobody outside of a few fussy RFC worshipping
> types would ever want the behavior of the Postgre list. Yes, I'll
> have to live with the current behavior. Yes, it's an RFC standard.
> But, even after having heard the arguments I'm not convinced that
> this list's behavior is desirable. YMMV.

mail.App is crippled aswell.. I think I will install Mutt again for
convenience --- just kidding...

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