[BangPypers] Change in Mailing list settings

Noufal Ibrahim noufal at nibrahim.net.in
Fri Aug 23 16:26:56 CEST 2013


Anand B Pillai <anandpillai at letterboxes.org> writes:

> Hi List,
>
>    The mailing list settings has been modified to change the
> default reply-to address to the poster. Earlier it was
> the list itself.

Is that a good idea? Gnus is smart enough to handle lists specially so
I'm not particularly affected but most people hit "reply" due to the
lack of a "follow up" and it will be annoying if it simply goes to the
sender. 

>    This was done to make sure replies to job postings don't
> reach the list. It has been a pending gripe for a while.

Really? I recollect a very small number of such accidents.


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Noufal
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