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Hi :)
Hmmm, over 60% of the worlds top 50 supercomputers use Gnu&Linux and most of the rest use other 
unix-based platforms.  So anyone using the internet or any email system has probably used Linux.  
Google servers run on Gnu&Linux.  Almost all mobile phones used Gnu&Linux although smart phones 
sometimes use something else.  

What people usually mean is they have never used it as a desktop OS.  
Regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Tue, 14/8/12, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew@pitonyak.org> wrote:

From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew@pitonyak.org>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Reply settings on this list have changed
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tuesday, 14 August, 2012, 6:12


I would bet that you have used a Linux based machine..... and you just 
never knew it. Seems like Linux is everywhere. Seems that I own a DVR, a 
fancy Panasonic DVD player, and a phone that all seem to be based on 
Linux. It is everywhere, we just don't know it! :-)

On 08/13/2012 07:55 PM, anne-ology wrote:
         you're mis-informed; I, for one, have never used a Linus-based
machine; and I bet I'm not the only one.



On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Mark LaPierre <marklapier@aol.com> wrote:

On 08/12/2012 12:31 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hello,

this is to inform you that the reply settings on this list have changed
(so-called "Reply to mangling" has been disabled).

So far, e-mails had set a reply-to the mailing list address. In other
words, with any e-mail client, replies to e-mails on the list were
automatically sent directly to the list.

In the past, this lead to two major problems:

1. Several times, people have sent direct replies to the public list,
where deleting them is nearly impossible. I remember at least one case
where confidential information has been sent out that caused lots of
worries for the sender and his employer. This happened because people
hit "reply" and thought it would reply to the sender only.

2. I have heard complaints in the past from people, stating that working
with the non-developer lists of LibreOffice is a pain for them, because
of reply-to mangling, resulting in a lack of communication. This also
led to the fact that numerous tasks were done by the same people, who
needed to spend more and more time, instead of sharing the work burden
with others. While I do not fully believe this argument, there's just
one way to find out...

Therefore, I have applied a change:

Replies to e-mails from the list now only go to the original sender. You
either need to use the "reply to all" feature of your e-mail program, or
- preferably - the "reply to list"/"reply to group" feature, which will
direct replies directly to the list.

This is common practice on most mailing lists, and even the default
setting for our mailing list software, so we did not re-invent the wheel
here. Those seeking for details should have a look at
http://www.unicom.com/pw/**reply-to-harmful.html<http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>

I know we had numerous discussions on this topic in the past, but the
outcome was that roughly 50% were for this change, and 50% refused it,
so I am really sitting between two chairs here, for which I beg for your
understanding. On the one hand, those complaining the lists are unusable
with reply-to mangling, on the other hand, those complaining the lists
are unusable without reply-to mangling. Unfortunately, combining those
two, even on a per-recipient basis, is not possible, so they are
mutually exclusive to each other.

In order to find out the real impact, I simply changed the setting, and
again, I beg for your understanding.

Do not worry: The mailing lists are for the community, so it's the
community deciding how they should work. What I'd like to ask all of you
is to try out for a few days if that change is good for each list or
not. Should we find out it is more harmful than it helps, I will
immediately switch back to the old behaviour.

Sorry for this short notice, and I beg for your understanding that I'm
somehow sitting between two chairs here.

Florian


Hey All,

Not trying to be rude.  All of you should be smart enough to run an email
tool.  After all you're all Linux users who administer at least one Linux
installation.

For those of you having trouble with email filters try filtering on
"libreoffice-users" in the subject line.  That should get all your email to
the right folder.

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