On 28 May 2006 at 23:01, Dada Mail (Justin Simoni) wrote:

Heya,

Many people have mentioned

http://mojo skazat com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB 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: 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

Justin,

I am in the process of replacing a Yahoo Group e-mail list with a Dada mail discussion list (not live yet)

One of the problems we have had with Yahoo is that the "To:" address is listname@yahoogroups com As it is not addressed to the recipient in person Hotmail (and others) put the message into a 'junk mail' or 'bulk mail' folder by default, where it is deleted after 5 days or so To avoid this, the recipient has to find the message in the junk folder and flag it as 'not junk'

One advantage that I anticipate with Dada Mail is that messages are addressed to the recipient in person, which should prevent Hotmail, etc treating them as junk If you change the headers so that the "To:" address becomes the list name, then I think it would be useful to provide an option to keep the existing headers where the "To:" address is the recipient's name

Dave Lauder