Re: [tdf-moderators] reply-to mangling

Hi *,

Florian Effenberger wrote (26-10-11 16:45)

> Friedrich Strohmaier wrote on 2011-10-26 00:59:
>
> > No, it definitely doesn't brake lists! Posters who choose one of those
> > broken clients (regarding mailing list usage) will have to fiddle with
> > reply-to all and mangling the posters address - their problem.

Sounds reasonable, but the question is ... at what cost ;-)

> at least once a week, I even get mislead mails from one of our admins,
> who I think of being technically very experienced. The admin lists
> doesn't have reply-to mangling, and lots of content is missing on the
> list, because people always reply to me directly. Especially our admins
> have been bugging me to turn on reply-to-mangling on that list... weird
> world. :-)
>
> I have seen users of mutt, Google Mail and a few other mail clients
> complaining.
>
> > I vote for all lists, because the above is valid for all of them. But
> > well, I admit as long as we lead unexperienced users looking for support
> > on a mailing list (which I consider not beeing a good solution), we
> > should think about making that one an exception (and thus making life
> > harder for those *giving* support).

Maybe it is changing one bad for the other ...?

> My take would be to use one of the more prominent lists to try out the
> results - preferably users@, or in case we want to exclude that list,
> something like discuss@ could be a good starter.
>
> In case pure chaos arises, we need to rethink the strategy, in case
> things work out well, we might adapt that for other lists.
>
> What do you think?

Yes, let's try how it works. with discuss@ .. what does it deliver and 
what does it take?

Cheers,

Cor
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