[Wine]reply should be to: [email protected] not author

M-Halo masochisthalo at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 6 17:11:57 CST 2004


--- Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> M-Halo wrote:
> 
> >--- "James E. LaBarre" <jamesl at bestweb.net> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>>On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 08:27 -0800, Duane Clark
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>>(You need to hit "Reply-all" so that responses
> go
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>to the list, instead 
> >>    
> >>
> >>>>of just to me.)
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>Sorry, The Fedora list mail comes "from" the
> list,
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>so I never check the
> >>    
> >>
> >>>to in the reply.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I just wish you folks would stop whining when you
> >>get a message that should
> >>have gone to the list.  As long as the list
> insists
> >>upon varying from
> >>*expected* behavior (regardless on whether or not
> >>it's correct), you must
> >>expect to get misdirected messages.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >No whining.  Sometimes people forget, and you have
> to
> >remind them about this or send the message back to
> the
> >alias.  Personally, unless the conversation leads
> to
> >something offline (from the alias), I prefer to
> keep
> >the message in the alias' eyes.
> >  
> >
> Why does this mailing list do that? Can't it be
> configured like most 
> other lists for reply to: wine-users at winehq.org
> 
> I often forget to look at the To: to see who it's
> going to --- I just 
> assume that when I hit "reply" the msg will go back
> to the list (as it 
> should.  it is a "distribution list" after all)

*shrugs*  I don't think incoming messages are filtered
through anything so that "wine-users at winehq.org" is
appended to every "from" field.  :S  In any case, I'm
just a user of the alias; I have no ideas what the
guts look like! :)

Hiji


	
		
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