From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 23:44:04 -0500 From: Greg Earle earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US Subject: Mailing list meta-issues (was: Re: imminent release) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 09ca2e32-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19950401044404.ov71sYfGdUfg6D6dK0K6H-c8JBSX3--d9bh5wQcgLRo@z> David Hogan writes: > Steve Kotsopoulos writes: >> Rich Salz wrote: >>> I hope "the plan 9 guys" will reject anyone who replies to the >>> list rather then the sender. >> >> I hope not. The message from Rob had a 'Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu', >> probably inserted by the list software. > > Which is a bad thing for the list software to do. No, it's a *great* thing for list software to do. There's nothing I hate more than posting to a mailing list and then getting back two copies of all replies, and I *especially* hate it when the replies spiral off meta-discussions or side tangents I could care less about, but everyone was too damned lazy to remove earlier participants from the headers. > Not adding the Reply-To is better, because it gives the person replying the > choice of just replying to the author, or doing a group reply which will > go to the list. Anyone with decent mailer agent software can do this already by themselves. (I heartily encourage you to try exmh 1.5.3, which offers in its "Reply" menu a sub-menu with a "Reply to sender" and a "Reply to all" entry.) > Can this be changed, to forestall future debacles? Please, leave it be. - Greg P.S. As to the mailing list vs. comp.os.plan9 issue, one observation: because I couldn't get my Caltech-associated Prof (who works here at JPL) to fill out the damned paperwork, I'm running NetBSD/SPARC on my IPC instead of Plan 9. NetBSD suffers from having a zillion mailing lists, and before recently, essentially non-existant newsgroup support. I'd suggest getting either a strong comp.os.plan9 newsgroup proposal going, or keep it to a mailing list if the target audience isn't too high. Just please don't set up a zillion different little mailing lists like NetBSD did. Yuck.