Re: [sup-talk] mailinglists in CC

From: "Philipp Überbacher" <hollunder@lavabit.com>
To: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] mailinglists in CC
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:40:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282221544-sup-9759@eris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282220819-sup-9512@theshire>

Excerpts from Erin Sheldon's message of 2010-08-19 14:27:04 +0200:
> Excerpts from Israel Herraiz's message of Thu Aug 19 07:58:29 -0400 2010:
> > Excerpts from Philipp's message of Thu Aug 19 06:52:56 -0400 2010:
> > > It's really annoying to send to single people instead of the list by
> > > accident.
> > 
> > It's really annoying to send a message to the list instead of to a
> > single person by accident.
> > 
> > In any case, mailing lists can set a Reply-To header, and I think Sup
> > will reply to the address included in that header. If it does not,
> > then I think that's a bug :-).
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Israel
> 
> I partially agree.
> 
> I think we can take a lesson from gmail here:  A simple reply always
> replies to the sender. A group reply will include the list of course,
> and in that case you are responsible for trimming the recipients.  I've
> been caught by surprise when in 'sup a simple reply was sent to the list
> *instead* of the sender.  It is hard to predict when it will happen,
> because the Reply-To header is not ordinarily visible.
> 
> Erin Scott Sheldon

I'd like it the other way around, always reply to list and simply change
to 'sender' in the (at least for me) rare cases where it's not supposed
to go to the list.
-- 
Philipp

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