reply to setting

hi,
any reason why the default reply-to on this list should not be set to the
list? I keep replying to postings only to find later that the reply goes to
the OP and not to the list. reply-all button results in needless duplication
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Re: reply to setting

Kenneth Gonsalves writes:
> any reason why the default reply-to on this list should not be set to the
> list? I keep replying to postings only to find later that the reply goes to
> the OP and not to the list. reply-all button results in needless duplication

It works fine for the rest of us. Fix your mail software.

regards, tom lane

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Re: reply to setting

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:33:08 +0530,
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> hi,
> any reason why the default reply-to on this list should not be set to the
> list? I keep replying to postings only to find later that the reply goes to
> the OP and not to the list. reply-all button results in needless duplication

The duplication is needless. Direct replies very often get to the recipient
faster than ones sent through the lists. It is also possible that the direct
replies might be handled differently by the recipient (e.g. a filter may put
them in different folders).

Recipients that prefer not to get separate copies can indicate that desire
by including an appropiate mail-followup-to header.

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Re: reply to setting

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:33:08 +0530,
> Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>>any reason why the default reply-to on this list should not be set to the
>>list? I keep replying to postings only to find later that the reply goes to
>>the OP and not to the list. reply-all button results in needless duplication
>
> The duplication is needless. Direct replies very often get to the recipient
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
is *not* needless?

> faster than ones sent through the lists. It is also possible that the direct
> replies might be handled differently by the recipient (e.g. a filter may put
> them in different folders).

This is very true. In fact, I get mildly annoyed when people *don't*
include the direct reply to me, because I very actively filter/redirect
my mail. Replies directly to me are pretty much guaranteed to be seen
quickly, but the ones that go to the list might get lost among the
hundreds of posts that go into my "postgres" inbox every day. I think
many other people do something similar.

> Recipients that prefer not to get separate copies can indicate that desire
> by including an appropiate mail-followup-to header.

Also true.

Joe

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Re: reply to setting

> > faster than ones sent through the lists. It is also possible that the direct
> > replies might be handled differently by the recipient (e.g. a filter may put
> > them in different folders).
>
> This is very true. In fact, I get mildly annoyed when people *don't*
> include the direct reply to me, because I very actively filter/redirect

If you don't want duplicates, send an email to majordomo@postgresql.org
with the following command (or something similar to this anyway):

set pgsql-hackers eliminatecc

Whenever you're in the To: or Cc: headers, the list will not send you a
copy of the message -- so you only receive it once.




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Re: reply to setting

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 13:45:21 -0700,
Joe Conway wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >
> >The duplication is needless. Direct replies very often get to the recipient
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> is *not* needless?

Yeah, I made a typo.

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Re: reply to setting

Joe Conway writes:

> This is very true. In fact, I get mildly annoyed when people *don't* include
> the direct reply to me, because I very actively filter/redirect my mail.
> Replies directly to me are pretty much guaranteed to be seen quickly, but the
> ones that go to the list might get lost among the hundreds of posts that go
> into my "postgres" inbox every day. I think many other people do something
> similar.

Just as a side comment, one trick I found very helpful in my mail filters is
to treat any message with one of my message-ids in the references as a
personal message as far as mail notifications. This way I get notifications
for any message on a thread following a post of my own.

This is easy in Gnus since the message id has the sending hostname and also
the first few characters has a base64 encoded copy of the unix userid. You
would have to figure out how to recognize message-ids from your MUA.


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greg


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Re: reply to setting

Greg Stark wrote:
> Just as a side comment, one trick I found very helpful in my mail filters is
> to treat any message with one of my message-ids in the references as a
> personal message as far as mail notifications. This way I get notifications
> for any message on a thread following a post of my own.

Interesting idea -- thanks!

Joe

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