[Ffmpeg-devel] reply-to headers and the mailinglist

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 05:56:52PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:52:51PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Hi
> >> >
> >> > quite a few messages which appear on the list contain reply-to headers to the 
> >> > poster+mailinglist, is this wanted? 
> >> >
> >> > currently the mailman settings are:
> >> > first_strip_reply_to: No
> >> > reply_goes_to_list: list
> >> >
> >> > i could change first_strip_reply_to to yes but that would remove not only 
> >> > reply-to headers which contain only the poster (and then get the list added 
> >> > by mailman) but also reply to headers which originally conatin the 
> >> > poster+list, at least if i understand things correctly
> >> >
> >> > the lists on SF dont have a first_strip_reply_to option ...
> >> > how are other lists configured? 
> >> 
> >> IMHO, the best is not to do any reply-to processing.  See
> >> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html for a discussion on the
> >> topic.
> >
> > This is nonsense...without it everyone would reply off-list and spam
> > us all.
> 
> It seems to work well on all the lists I subscribe to that don't mess
> with reply-to.  Any sane mailer has a command that replies in the
> proper way.

The point is that people won't use it. I (and apparently 99% of the
developers) do NOT want to get personally-addressed, off-list mail.

> > I vote for stripping all reply-to headers and then adding the list
> > as the only reply-to.
> 
> Setting relpy-to to the list addrss only makes it difficult to reply
> off-list, if that's what you actually want to do.

Exactly. It's difficult on purpose. So people won't do it.

Rich