[Mailman-Developers] Reply-To munging: stop the madness

Norbert Bollow nb at thinkcoach.com
Wed Apr 23 12:14:30 EDT 2003


Marty Galyean <marty at penguinarts.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 17:52, Dan Mick wrote:
> > It *is* a per-subscriber option.  It's called "reply all".
> 
> <blog>
> 
> I'm not sure if it is in the spirit of a typical software 'option' if
> you have to decide and choose 'reply all' every time.  Usually 'option'
> means a setting you set and forget.
> 
> When cruising through my mail from various lists I inevitably forget to
> 'reply all' on lists where it is warranted and I end up sending a second
> time to the list in a separate email.

I think there's a pretty straightforward way in which this problem
could be solved, by using a little robot for managing all you Mailman
list subscriptions.

I've wiki'd this idea up at http://wiki.dotgnu.org/GroupsBot

Greetings, Norbert.

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