Re: [libreoffice-users] List-reply issues... again

On 04/28/2014 03:35 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 16:05 27/04/2014 -0700, James E. Lang wrote:
> > Mailing lists are a way to share comments with a group of people who
> > share an interest in a particular topic. As such private replies
> > _should_ be the exception rather than the rule.
>
> It's true that some lists - perhaps most - are for discussion, but not
> all. The web site advertises this list thus: "The user support mailing
> list address is our main channel for LibreOffice users needing help with
> a problem". Users with problems do not necessarily want to engage in a
> discussion: they just want help. Nor do list members want to discuss,
> perhaps for the umpteenth time, such questions as why LibreOffice is not
> a clone of Microsoft Office.

I haven't yet a strong opinion about this :-) :-) :-) :-) , but 
libreoffice-mailing-list could add an advise that say for example "this 
list is considered public and the reply-to field isn't taken into 
account..."

> > Starting with this post, any message that I send to this mailing list
> > via any of the three mail clients that I use will carry this header:
> >    Reply-To: "LibreOffice Users List" <users@global.libreoffice.org
> >
> > This will tell the mail clients from which replies are sent that this
> > is the preferred address to which a reply should be sent. This is my
> > way of getting around what I consider to be a wrong headed
> > configuration of this mailing list.
>
> Interestingly, the fact that you can do this defeats your point! The
> Reply-To: header, in the words of RFC 2822, "indicates the mailbox(es)
> to which the *author* of the message suggests that replies be sent" (my
> emphasis). The author of a message, of course, is you - not the list.
> The header is provided to give *you* this control - and by not
> interfering, this list preserves this facility for you as it should.

...could be an option...., but, if I use the email address also for 
other mailing lists what happen if I set the "reply-to" field with all 
the mailing lists addresses???

> > I ... will NOT participate in a flame war.
>
> No incendiaries here!

only firemans that puts out flames with beer...:-) :-) :-)

> Brian Barker
thanx :-) ciao :-)  pier...

P.S. I was sending this email privately instead of publicly again...:-) 
:-) :-) but stopped just in time...:-) :-)

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