[Fedora-music-list] music list - no owner

[Christopher Antila]

On 07/29/2010 06:29 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 07:59 +1000, David Timms wrote:
>> 1. Does no one else see this issue ?
> 
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> This is the usual argument against munging.  I do not have any strong
> feelings either way.  The mailman documentation urges no munging and
> that's what I've followed on the lists I administer.  It's also the
> policy on most of the lists to which I subscribe.
> 
> The main argument for munging as best I can understand is that reply and
> reply-all will both go to the list.  There is no choice.  I've also
> encountered people who object to the duplication of getting a direct
> reply *and* a copy from the list.  My email program (Evolution) seems to
> do a reasonable job of suppressing the duplicates.
> 
> 
> I had not realized that many replies were getting lost.
> 

I'm with Lloyd on this one.  Thunderbird gives me two buttons: "reply,"
and "reply list."  It's pretty straight-forward.

As for whether the list should have an owner is an entirely different issue.


Christopher.