Reply etiquette

[Richard Eisenberg]

Ah, yes, the reply-to worked great.

I use the Mac Mail app, which lacks a reply-to-list feature (as far as I can tell). So, without a reply-to in the header, I have two choices without manual override: reply sender (omits the list) or reply all (includes both sender and list). Of course, I can tailor my headers before I send, but it honestly never occurred to me that this mattered. Now that you point out your filtering strategy, it's obvious. In any case, by putting in the reply-to, all is better.

Keeping in mind that others are likely using a similar filtering strategy, I will try to pay more attention to this in the future.

Richard

On Jan 29, 2014, at 5:47 PM, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 29.01.2014, 23:18 +0100 schrieb Jan Stolarek:
>>> PS: I’m subscribed to the list, no need to send a copy to my private address.
>> 
>> This is typically done to alert someone that he/she has been addressed directly in a discussion. I 
>> for example have my filters set in such a way that all ghc-devs mails are automatically marked as 
>> read unless I am CC'd.
> 
> if someone really needs urgent attention from me, putting me in CC is
> fine: Mail directed to me will cause popups and land in my Inbox. But
> doing so carelessly makes this distinction useless; for example with the
> recent pattern synonym thread, I once made a minor comment and got a
> dozend mails explicitly sent to me. This is alerting thing is clearly
> not working – and I am tempted to the opposite of what you do:
> Automatically delete any mail reaching my inbox that also goes to
> ghc-dev (and stop whining here).
> 
> But before doing that, I’ll try using the Reply-To header, let’s see if
> that works better.
> 
> BTW, does everyone know about Reply-To-List (sometimes calle Group
> Reply, Ctrl-L in evolution) instead of Reply-To-All? But I heard rumors
> that Outlook does not support that, and – unlike in the Debian community
> – that would be a problem. I guess Reply-To can help then.
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> Joachim
> 
> 
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