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

[Benoit Fouet]

Felipe Contreras wrote:
> 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.
>   

I was not aware of such issues... I personnaly don't care at all to know
if this is a reply to me and the mailing list or not...
well, in that case, I suppose the reply to all is the only way

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