[Systems] Mailmain configuration

[James Cameron]

Good learning opportunities.

The Sugar community is already convinced on this particular point, so
I don't think it will be practical to change.

Please continue to teach yourself and others how to use reply-all.

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 05:55:20PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi
> 
> It seems weird to me that when I click reply, I only email the author of the
> email I'm replying to, off list; and if I click reply-to-all, all the previous
> authors in the thread are CC'd along with the list, and the primary recipient
> is the immediately upstream author. 
> 
> Code developers on sugar-devel@ are having to read all this stuff because of
> the current configuration of mailman. 
> 
> People often don't know how to reply-all, so their replies are going off list
> with the current config. 
> 
> People don't know how to eliminate duplicate mails, and are pestered by
> duplicate emails with the current config. 
> 
> On 11 April 2016 at 17:43, Samuel Cantero <[1]scanterog at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 5:35 PM, James Cameron <[2]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>    
>         My vote is against.  Reply-to munging is a technical attempt to solve
>         a social and training problem.
> 
>     Agree. Mailman does not recommend to introduce or override the Reply-to
>     header.
> 
>         The underlying problems are;
> 
>         - several mailing lists with slight overlap of interested members,
>           (why are code developers on sugar-devel@ having to read all this
>           stuff?)
> 
>         - people often don't know how to reply-all,
> 
>         - people don't know how to eliminate duplicate mails.
> 
>         I'm an administrator of sugar-devel@
>        
>         On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 05:09:48PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote:
>         >
>         > Hi
>         >
>         > I'd like to suggest changing the SL lists so that by default replies
>         go only
>         > back to the list, and most of the lists only accept mail addressed
>         solely to
>         > them. 
>         >
>         > Who has a mailman admin account? 
>         >
>         > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>         > From: Bastien Guerry <[1][3]bzg at bzg.fr>
>         > Date: 11 April 2016 at 10:09
>         > Subject: Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Action needed on two issues
>         > To: Dave Crossland <[2][4]dave at lab6.com>
>         > Cc: Laura Vargas <[3][5]laura at somosazucar.org>, "[4][6]
>         iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org" <[5]
>         > [7]iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>, Sugar-Labs <[6][8]
>         sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>,
>         > SLOBs <[7][9]slobs at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>         >
>         > Hi all,
>         >
>         > as much as I appreciate efforts to be completely transparent on those
>         > issues, would you mind having the discussion on a single mailing
>         list?
>         >
>         > Receiving those emails twice is a bit stressful.
>         >
>         > Thanks!
>         >
>         > And a big hugs to all paid or unpaid Sugar/OLPC *volunteers* <3
>         >
>         > --
>         >  Bastien
>         >
>         > References:
>         >
>         > [1] mailto:[10]bzg at bzg.fr
>         > [2] mailto:[11]dave at lab6.com
>         > [3] mailto:[12]laura at somosazucar.org
>         > [4] mailto:[13]iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
>         > [5] mailto:[14]iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
>         > [6] mailto:[15]sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>         > [7] mailto:[16]slobs at lists.sugarlabs.org
> 
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>        
> 
>         --
>         James Cameron
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>    
> 
> --
> Cheers
> Dave
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:scanterog at gmail.com
> [2] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [3] mailto:bzg at bzg.fr
> [4] mailto:dave at lab6.com
> [5] mailto:laura at somosazucar.org
> [6] mailto:iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [7] mailto:iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [8] mailto:sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [9] mailto:slobs at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [10] mailto:bzg at bzg.fr
> [11] mailto:dave at lab6.com
> [12] mailto:laura at somosazucar.org
> [13] mailto:iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [14] mailto:iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [15] mailto:sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [16] mailto:slobs at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [17] mailto:Systems at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [18] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/systems
> [19] http://quozl.netrek.org/
> [20] mailto:Systems at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [21] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/systems

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