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

[Felipe Contreras]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Benoit Fouet
<benoit.fouet at purplelabs.com> wrote:
> 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

That's easier, but then you can't tell if a mail was sent directly to
you _and_ the mailing list, or just the mailing list. Unless there's
an option to add the mailing list to 'reply-to', instead of replacing
it.

-- 
Felipe Contreras