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Re: Can someone fix this mailing list?


Alex Schuilenburg wrote:

John Dallaway wrote:
[...]

List behaviour is indeed a matter of personal preference. Personally, I am firmly against the setting of the Reply-To header by list management software. The following page gives a concise set of arguments against such behaviour:

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

and equally, this alternate page sets a list of arguments why it is considered useful:
http://i.am.haze.cx/mirrors/reply-to-useful.htm


The strongest argument IMHO for the change by far is to keep discussions on the list and stop the continual "reply to the list" messages that we see. As I said before, the current behaviour IMHO is counter-productive to keeping discussions on the list, something that is continually advocated by the maintainers.

The second strongest argument IMHO is duplicate emails. Not everyone uses procmail or UNIX for their email.

Why dont we be democratic about this and put it to the vote?

For avoidance of doubt, the choice of mailing list configuration is ultimately determined by the eCos maintainers, not by the result of unofficial subscriber polling.


John Dallaway
eCos Maintainer

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