Re: Running installation tests

Mario Ruggier <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...] ps: I noticed that doing 'reply' to messages on this list will only
> reply to the individual sender and not to the list. This is on purpose?

It's on purpose. The alternative is reply-to rewriting by the mailing list
software (which in the case of Mailman used here can be activated).

Whole wars have been fought on this issue and it's possible to argument for
both ways, as seen here:

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

and here:

http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml

<ot>
Of course real [tm] mail user agents (like mutt ;-) have different
intuitive reply factilities like reply (bound to 'r'), group-reply (bound
to 'g') and list-reply (bound to 'L'). So reply-to rewriting makes the most
sense for users of lesser MUAs :-)
</ot>

Or you can just use the NNTP interface at news.gmane.org (explained at
http://news.gmane.org/) like I do right now. The newsgroup name is
gmane.comp.python.db.pypgsql.over there. (Caveat: you still need to be
subscribed to post, but you can disable email delivery in your Mailman
preferences if you want to switch to NNTP completely).

ciao,

Gerhard
-- 
Gerhard Häring
OPUS GmbH München
Tel.: +49 89 - 889 49 7 - 32
http://www.opus-gmbh.net/



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