Thread: reply to setting
hi, any reason why the default reply-to on this list should not be set to the list? I keep replying to postings only to find later that the reply goes to the OP and not to the list. reply-all button results in needless duplication -- regards kg http://www.onlineindianhotels.net - fastest hotel search website in the world http://www.ootygolfclub.org
Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@thenilgiris.com> writes:
> any reason why the default reply-to on this list should not be set to the
> list? I keep replying to postings only to find later that the reply goes to
> the OP and not to the list. reply-all button results in needless duplication
It works fine for the rest of us. Fix your mail software.
regards, tom lane
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:33:08 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@thenilgiris.com> wrote: > hi, > any reason why the default reply-to on this list should not be set to the > list? I keep replying to postings only to find later that the reply goes to > the OP and not to the list. reply-all button results in needless duplication The duplication is needless. Direct replies very often get to the recipient faster than ones sent through the lists. It is also possible that the direct replies might be handled differently by the recipient (e.g. a filter may put them in different folders). Recipients that prefer not to get separate copies can indicate that desire by including an appropiate mail-followup-to header.
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:33:08 +0530, > Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@thenilgiris.com> wrote: >>any reason why the default reply-to on this list should not be set to the >>list? I keep replying to postings only to find later that the reply goes to >>the OP and not to the list. reply-all button results in needless duplication > > The duplication is needless. Direct replies very often get to the recipient ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ is *not* needless? > faster than ones sent through the lists. It is also possible that the direct > replies might be handled differently by the recipient (e.g. a filter may put > them in different folders). This is very true. In fact, I get mildly annoyed when people *don't* include the direct reply to me, because I very actively filter/redirect my mail. Replies directly to me are pretty much guaranteed to be seen quickly, but the ones that go to the list might get lost among the hundreds of posts that go into my "postgres" inbox every day. I think many other people do something similar. > Recipients that prefer not to get separate copies can indicate that desire > by including an appropiate mail-followup-to header. Also true. Joe
> > faster than ones sent through the lists. It is also possible that the direct > > replies might be handled differently by the recipient (e.g. a filter may put > > them in different folders). > > This is very true. In fact, I get mildly annoyed when people *don't* > include the direct reply to me, because I very actively filter/redirect If you don't want duplicates, send an email to majordomo@postgresql.org with the following command (or something similar to this anyway): set pgsql-hackers eliminatecc Whenever you're in the To: or Cc: headers, the list will not send you a copy of the message -- so you only receive it once.
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 13:45:21 -0700, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > >The duplication is needless. Direct replies very often get to the recipient > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > is *not* needless? Yeah, I made a typo.
Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes: > This is very true. In fact, I get mildly annoyed when people *don't* include > the direct reply to me, because I very actively filter/redirect my mail. > Replies directly to me are pretty much guaranteed to be seen quickly, but the > ones that go to the list might get lost among the hundreds of posts that go > into my "postgres" inbox every day. I think many other people do something > similar. Just as a side comment, one trick I found very helpful in my mail filters is to treat any message with one of my message-ids in the references as a personal message as far as mail notifications. This way I get notifications for any message on a thread following a post of my own. This is easy in Gnus since the message id has the sending hostname and also the first few characters has a base64 encoded copy of the unix userid. You would have to figure out how to recognize message-ids from your MUA. -- greg
Greg Stark wrote: > Just as a side comment, one trick I found very helpful in my mail filters is > to treat any message with one of my message-ids in the references as a > personal message as far as mail notifications. This way I get notifications > for any message on a thread following a post of my own. Interesting idea -- thanks! Joe