This is not the only list that I've seen people complain about Gmail's reply behaviour. I just wrote them some 'feedback' on the subject. As gmail is still beta, I assume that this can be taken care of- and that they care enough to do it. We'll see. Dotan http://english-lyrics.com On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:03:09 -0600, Jonathan Berry <berryja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 15:08:55 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz > <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 00:05 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > This is probably redundant, but I would suggest to anybody who's > > > looking for a good interface to work with the volume on this list to > > > use gmail. It threads the discssions better than Kmail did for me, > > > it's there when i want it and I'm not waiting to download anything. > > > > Two things: > > > > * This whole discussion started from a post by Warren Togami indicating > > an "imminent" plan to move most end-user support from the mailing list > > to a web forum. That was loudly received as a bloody awful idea, and the > > thought of using a newsgroup as base, with a gateway to mail and/or web, > > was proposed as an alternative. It's not about which mail > > clients/providers allow easier threading of mail... it's about mail or > > usenet vs. the web fora Warren proposed. > > Yes, but it can apply as Gmail would not be able to be used with a web > forum or just a newsgroup. It sounds like a new-to-mail gateway could > be added to a newsgroup to allow things to work very similarly to the > mailing list as it now is. As well, it sounds like a web interface > could be added to look like a web forum. It seems the general > consensus is a newsgroup is the most flexible alternative. > I find Gmail to have a very good interface for using mailing lists as > well. Perhaps if RedHat really wanted a web forum, they could take a > look at the interface and create something similar. That might be a > reasonable web forum interface, but I doubt that it would happen. > > > * Gmail has a nasty habit of modifying reply-to headers, changing > > replies to list so that they request direct replies instead of replies > > to list. That sounds confusing, so again: you send mail to the list from > > Gmail, and when I reply to your post, it goes directly to you instead of > > fedora-list. This is hugely annoying. Just as an FYI. > > This isn't completely true. Gmail simply sets the reply-to header and > the mailing list modifies it to also include the list. You hit reply > and the email, by default, sends to both me *and* the list. The > problem begins when I reply to your reply, which I got from you and > not the list since I have duplicate delivery turned off. The email > goes straight to you and not to the list unless I use reply-to-all. > Some other people have their email clients set to set the reply-to > address, it is just that Gmail doesn't seem to be able to turn that > off right now. If people were more careful about who they send the > email to (you can remove my name when you reply, or I can be careful > to use reply-to-all if needed) this would not be a problem. > > > Cheers, > > > > -- > > Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Jonathan > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
