Its really funny that you mention that, since you replied directly to me instead of the list, which personally I think drives home the point that Yaron and I are arguing home a little more. One thing a very wise former-president of a LUG once told me is that with new Linux users, the goal is to rock the boat, not sink it. We already encourage them to learn a new interface, begin learning the terminal, and switch many of their applications. Telling them to switch to mutt or another mail client over their web client (which, unless its Outlook Web Access, probably works fine in Linux) is just a bit excessive. I would also argue that most of the mailing lists I frequent still have the reply-to header, but most of those folks are programmers like me. Programmers are inherently lazy by nature, so that could be the reasoning for that. <.< -Adam On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 08:21:09AM -0600, Ben wrote: > Well a mailer which is built to support lists might be a better choice for > someone who finds this functionality useful. the "Reply-To" header has > pretty much been abandoned by most people for use in this way. > Heck just look at the dates on some of these posts > =) [1]http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=X-Mailing-List+Header+RFC > But yeah, i can see where it would be annoying. I've mostly abandoned > messing with mutt in favor of gmail > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Adam Morris > <[2]adam.morris at redstargaming.net> wrote: > > > Plus we're geared towards occasionally helping people, and > occasionally > > these people are newbies. No problem, but quite often I get replies to > my > > reply that come directly to ME rather than to the list. > > > > I think it'd be helpful for a lot of new users that our list had > standard > > mailing list behavior. > > I realize I'm relatively new to this list, and I've been kind of lurking > lately, but I agree. Not all mail clients have a reply list > functionality. Yes, we can be condescending pricks and tell them to go > get a "real" mail client, but that's a load of BS in my opinion. > > A GREAT example of a mail client that doesn't support Reply-To-List is > the Gmail interface. Last I checked, for lists like this you've got to > Reply-To-All, then cut out the original sender's address. Not too > difficult, but I would argue that's fairly annoying. > > As a side note, the whole condescending, "I'm better than you because I > use <foo> as my <task> client" attitude that lurks in the Linux > community is unhelpful and if this list is serious about helping > newbies, then I would also argue that people need to check that attitude > at the door. I know plenty of people who have nearly quit learning > Linux (including myself back in 2001) because of the unhelpful attitudes > many *nix users have. This is a discussion for another day however. > -Adam > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > [3]tclug-list at mn-linux.org > [4]http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- > Ben Lutgens > Linux / Unix System Administror > > Three of your friends throw up after eating chicken salad. Do you think: > "I should find more robust friends" or "we should check that > refrigerator"? > -- Donald Becker, on vortex-bug, suspecting a network-wide problem > > References > > Visible links > 1. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=X-Mailing-List+Header+RFC > 2. mailto:adam.morris at redstargaming.net > 3. mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org > 4. http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list