[kepler-dev] mailman changes: reply_goes_to_list/htdig

[Matt Jones]

Hi Peter,

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Peter Reutemann <fracpete at waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
> From my experience and in my opinion, having the reply-to pointing
> back to the list instead of the poster outweighs the occasional
> surprise in posting something to a wider audience. Here's why:
> While I was maintaining the WEKA software and moderating the mailing
> list (and mainly answering posts there) it got to a point where I was
> posting way too many private replies back to the list, since people
> just couldn't click on "reply all" (or didn't care who'd receive the
> email, poster or list), that I reconfigured mailman. Since then, as
> far as I can tell, there have been only a handful of mis-posts to the
> list instead of sending it privately. Considering that the switchover
> was several years back and that the mailing lists has several hundred
> posts/month, I think it was worth it (no private one-on-one help
> sessions, but accessible to everyone). But then, the audience on the
> kepler mailing lists could be different and I haven't been subscribed
> to them for that long.

OK, you convinced me :)  I've written to the leadership team to check
on this change and make sure there are no objections. If not, then
I'll proceed as you describe.

Matt
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