Re: No Work!

[Rutger Hofman]

Tim McNamara wrote:
> On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:55 AM, John Mandereau wrote:
>
> > Le mardi 15 décembre 2009 à 20:20 -0600, Tim McNamara a écrit :
> > > Wouldn't it be simplest to set the Reply-To header to the list?  Then
> > > all replies go to the list by default.
> >
> > No.  For good reasons about this, see
> > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
>
> Sorry, not convinced.
>
> I don't buy the generalized Unix notion that "doing things the hard way 
> is a virtue."  Literally every other mailing list in which I participate 
> sets the Reply-To header to the list.  It works better.  This one is the 
> anomaly and routinely results in e-mails being sent to individuals, not 
> to the list, resulting in "please send all e-mails to the list" posts, etc.

Not so for any of the lists that I am subscribed to (Linux mtd, u-boot, 
some eCos lists...). They have the same policy as the lilypond list.

Rutger