| Andreas Klemm on Sat, 3 Mar 2001 15:15:40 +0100 (CET) |
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| Re: Reply to list (was: Re: problem with apsfilter and abiword) |
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 08:00:27PM +0100, Carsten Neumann wrote: > On Fri, 02 Mar 2001, Andreas Klemm wrote: > > > > Could you please always do a group reply so that your answer > > show up on the mailing-list ??? > > > > It'a pain! Why ? Wrong mailer ? I have mutt and simply type the letter 'g' which stands for group reply ... If your mailer isn't that easy, you should look for a less painful mailer ... > > I'm nearly about forcing you people by configuring majordomo > > to set a reply to .... > > Please do so! hmm > > But that has other disadvantages ... > > What are these? > I don't see one! People who are new to a software tend to not immediately subscribe to a mailinglist. If they need help from a mailinglist they usually simply write to the list to see, if its useful. Other people fear much mailinglist traffic. If I would configure majordomo that way, he would set a Reply-To: <mlistname>@apsfilter.org into the mailheader. The result would be lots of help to <mlistname>@apsfilter.org, but not to the user who isn't subscribed to the list. I think I can't force people to subscribe to a list, but don't want be so unfriendly, not to give them the help of a mailinglist ... So figure ... I don't want to enable that feature... > > Sorry, but the reason is, that other people should learn > > from our conversation, I'm busy with lots of other things, > > so I have to use the medium internet to my advantage (to > > save time...). > > > > I use by default not "reply to all" since in most (of my) cases > I don't want to bore the other recipients with my opinion, > and most of the lists I'm subscribed to carry a "Reply to" field in > their header. And I see it the other way around ... I don't want to be the only person, who has to answer to people who have an apsfilter problem and don't want to answer questions again and again. People should also make use of the mailinglist archive, which is ready for keyword search ... Therefore people should use the list and use group replys... > If I do this (and I do so always) for the apsfilter-help list > I usually fail because I recognise - if at all - just after > sending my mail that the reply goes to only one person. > Since there is no "Reply to" field it goes to the "From" address. > Then I have to send it again to the list. > > Please add that "Reply to" field! What crappy mailer do you have, so that you aren't able to do a group reply ??? Even Lotus notes, which is crappy in other ways, has at least a knob to push "reply to all people". I hope you understand my position better now ... What do others think about that ? Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm Apsfilter Homepage http://www.apsfilter.org Support over mailing-lists (only!) http://www.apsfilter.org/support Mailing-list archive http://www.apsfilter.org/Lists-Archives