[gst-devel] Word of caution on using mailing lists

Benoit Fouet benoit.fouet at purplelabs.com
Tue Jul 22 13:17:48 CEST 2008


Hi Ed,

Edward Hervey wrote:
> To all newcomers to this mailing-list,
>
>   Whenever you reply to mails by people helping you, do *NOT* send them
> mails in private, but to the whole mailing-list. There's two reasons to
> that:
>   * Your discussion will be lost to everybody (no longer public to the
> whole mailing list),
>   * People helping you are doing it in their free time and they reply
> when they can. Forcing your issues to one particular individual can
> become very irritating.
>
>   It's really easy : Just hit the 'Reply-to-all' button in your mail
> client.
>
>   

can't the mailing list be configured so that the "Reply-To:" header is
filled with the mailing list address ?
that would solve the issue for most (if not all) mailers

-- 
Benoit Fouet
Purple Labs S.A.
www.purplelabs.com




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