"Joe Rizza" joe@PROTECTED

Re: [dadadev] Discussion List Style - Request For Comments I think it would be great for REPLY to go to the sender, and REPLY ALL go to the list I've had a lot of people asking for this feature on the discussion lists

-Joe

On 28 May 2006 23:01:30 -0000, Dada Mail (Justin Simoni) dada@skazat com wrote: Heya,

Many people have mentioned

      http://mojo
skazat
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pl?num=1145638823

that the style of Dada Mail discussion lists are slightly different than other Mailing List Managers Right now, I want to focus on one issue:

It seems that in other programs, messages sent to the list have the, "To:" header filled into what Dada Mail refers to as the, "List Address" For this list, it would look sort of like this:

      To: dadadev@skazat
com
      From: me@example
com

Currently in Dada Mail, the, "To:" header is set to, well, to the person that will receive the message, if, "receiver@example com" is going to receive the message, the headers would look like this:

      To: <mailto:receiver@example
com>receiver@example
com
      From: me@example
com

If you check the headers of this very message, you should see this

The first, traditional way has an interesting advantage, that many have pointed out - if you reply to the message, you'll reply to the original sender If you hit, "Reply to All", you'll reply to both the original sender, and the list This is what most people expect - I think :)

This functionality is currently broken in Dada Mail discussion lists; if you hit, "reply", you'll reply to the original sender If you hit, "Reply All", you'll reply to the original sender

There is an option in dada_bridge pl, to, "Automatically have replies to messages directed to the group "

If this option is checked, replies will go back to the list If you hit, "Reply-All", replies will go back to the list

So, my question is: I was thinking of changing this list to the more traditional headers, anyone have a problem with that?

Any other experiences with discussion mailing lists that you'd like copied?

Cheers,

-- Justin Simoni

: Dada Mail "Write Once - Distribute Everywhere" Email Communication Software

url: http://mojo skazat com ph: 720 436 7701 aolim: leaddadaist

Justin, I am on probably way to many forums/mailing lists, but I can testify that one of the biggest annoyances on any list is some newbie replying to a post and sending it to both the list address and the originator(s) of the post Real amateurism in action

A reply should be directed back to the forum and only the forum aka mailing list unless the originator requests otherwise