[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Header Etiquette (was: MP3 Patent Issues)

["Sam BC" <sambc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I personally dislike getting two copies of replies to all my posts - so I do
as you do... but there is no 'right way' - only the way some people do it.


SamBC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: freeciv-dev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:freeciv-dev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jed Davis
> Sent: 02 July 2000 22:18
> To: freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: Header Etiquette (was: MP3 Patent Issues)
>
>
> --On Sunday, 2 July 2000 3:16 PM +0100 Jules Bean
> <jmlb2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Mathias Hasselmann wrote:
> >>
> >> But NO! The list manager does not sets the reply-to header -
> >> as other list managers do! This a really bad behaviour, since
> >> you can't simply reply postings and mail user agents have
> >> nearly no chance to track threads.
> >
> > First, do a web search on "reply-to considered harmful".  Once you've
> > read, understood, and thought about that information, read the
> > documentation for your email client and discover features it has which
> > may be called a 'group reply' or a 'list reply'. Also discover the
> > 'mail-followup-to' header and find out whether your email client
> > supports that.
> >
> Hmm... I've been sending To: freeciv-dev and CC'ing no-one unless they
> specifically ask, but I'm noticing that other people seem to send To: the
> person they're replying to (and sometimes the next person before that,
> etc.) and CC: the list (which is what my client defaults to,
> although it's
> got a rather nice dialog for choosing the recipients before composing the
> message).  Am I doing the Right Thing here?  I didn't want people to get
> redundant copies of list messages.
>
> --Jed
>
>
>