[R] Meta: R-Help reply-to

Jeff Newmiller jdnewm|| @end|ng |rom dcn@d@v|@@c@@u@
Tue Dec 15 19:54:00 CET 2020


For the record: this is not nearly as cut-and-dried as you imply. The current settings actually make replying off-list rather tricky for some mail clients... I have tried and failed a few times to reply off-list due to this.

The next level of invasiveness is to make it appear that the original author is the list... and having participated in lists that were setup that way in the past, I will vote strongly against such a change.

So some mail clients make it too easy to ignore the email headers, and for some reason newbies end up using those mail clients frequently. But making changes to the default list configuration is not necessarily going to solve that problem, so beware of solutions that are worse than the problems they purport to solve.

On December 15, 2020 9:04:56 AM PST, "Patrick (Malone Quantitative)" <malone using malonequantitative.com> wrote:
>Ok. If this is a desirable change, of whom would we request it? I was
>unable to find a name, and as I said, I got no response from the
>generic
>address.
>
>Pat
>
>On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:43 AM Pär Leijonhufvud via R-help <
>r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>
>> Unless I am getting senile that should be an option in Mailman...
>>
>https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/src/mailman/handlers/docs/reply-to.html
>>
>> /Pär
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Patrick
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>> Quantitative)
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 4:52 PM
>> To: r-help <r-help using r-project.org>
>> Subject: [R] Meta: R-Help reply-to
>>
>> Greetings.
>>
>> Something I've wondered for some time--is mailman configurable to
>have a
>> default reply-to be set to the list or to reply-all?
>>
>> Many newcomers who reply to individual R-Help participants may not
>notice
>> that they are doing so, and it seems a source of vexation to some of
>the
>> more frequent helpers.
>>
>> I wrote to r-help-owner with this query several months ago and never
>heard
>> back.
>>
>> Pat
>>
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