[melbourne-pug] reply-to header on mailing list

[Mike Dewhirst]

On 3/06/2015 3:01 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Turns out it's a slow day and I'm enjoying learning a little about
> mailing list administration.Â

Go back and look at Mark Hammond's contribution. Actually, look at the 
Reply-to setting on his message.

Interesting!

Mike

>
> Mostly my gig here is just approving non-subscribed emails, so my
> mailman-fu is not strong. Nobody gave me any firm parameters for what
> being a list admin really entails, so I'm just going with my best
> judgment and by the way there are other list admins too. After
> completing the reading assignment, I have some more questions. There is
> clear direction from the Internet Gods that reply-to munging continues
> to spark discussion. Here are my questions.
>
> When I read emails now, in gmail, the sender is something like "Joe
> Subscriber via python.org <http://python.org>", and there is just one
> sender -- no CC, nothing. The sender is the list, and I treat replies as
> though I'm on a bulletin board. The fact the message come from a list is
> clearly marked in the 'via' field, plus of course in the subject line
> where [melbourne-pug] is clearly added.
>
> What happens to incoming mail if
> Â  (a) I set reply-to to be the poster (i.e. do not munge)
> Â  (b) I set reply-to to be a specific and invalid email address
>
> The downside of not munging (as I now understand things) is the general
> confusion arising from sending emails *only* to the poster, then
> correcting afterwards, possibly some time later (if it is recognised at
> all). Well, according to the Zen of Python, errors should not pass
> silently! Would it be technically possible to set things up so that
> reply-all goes to the list, but there simple is no valid reply-to
> address at all?
>
> Luddites like me would be slowly trained to hit 'reply all', with
> pseudo-instant feedback. Those who hit 'reply' without thinking about
> who the message is going to (or with a very specific understanding of
> the term 'reply') will also get instant feedback and will not broadcast
> their private messages to all and sundry.
>
> Feel free to direct further conversations to me directly (note -- not by
> hitting reply!) and we can take some of the noise off the list.Â
>
> I continue to leave the settings unmodified while the discussion goes on.
>
> Cheers,
> -T
>
>
>
> On 3 June 2015 at 14:25, Tennessee Leeuwenburg <tleeuwenburg at gmail.com
> <mailto:tleeuwenburg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hmmm looks complicated. Seems like we could be better off with a
>     Facebook group.
>
>     <ducks for cover/>
>
>
>
>     On 3 June 2015 at 14:10, Tennessee Leeuwenburg
>     <tleeuwenburg at gmail.com <mailto:tleeuwenburg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         +1 informative
>
>         I will happily do some further reading.Â
>
>         On 3 June 2015 at 12:58, Andrew Stuart
>         <andrew.stuart at supercoders.com.au
>         <mailto:andrew.stuart at supercoders.com.au>> wrote:
>
>             Here’s what Barry Warsaw (Mailman lead developer) has said
>             on the topic:
>
>             http://wiki.list.org/DOC/What%20about%20setting%20a%20%22Reply-To-%22%20header%20for%20the%20list%3F
>
>
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>
>
>
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>     "Don't believe everything you think"
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