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David DeHaven david.dehaven at oracle.com
Thu Oct 11 08:31:42 PDT 2012

It all boils down to RFC-2822 superseding RFC-822 and the new language states that reply-to is an originator field supplied by the author alone. The list software should inject list headers as outlined in RFC-2369, one such header is List-Post which provides an address to send responses to the list at, then it's up to the client to decide whether to use From, Reply-To or List-Post when composing a response.

This list conforms to RFC-2369 and provides such a field: List-Post: <mailto:openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net>

If you want the default reply action to post to the list then you must configure your client to do so, there is nothing to be done on the list side.

-DrD-

First, my comment was not any official position (as I said "I" prefer).

A reply may not always be an answer. I'm implying no hide-and-seek here, but intentionally I may want to clarify something before I make an informed public response, or hash out some half-baked ideas in private before bringing them to list in a "more well baked" form. If I feel I am speaking from a position of knowledge then I will, quite instinctively, hit Reply-To-All and not even have to think about whether my message is reaching people. To avoid beating this issue any further - my general feelings are summarized well by resources found at the following page: http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/listreplyto.html which points primarily to this really well written message on the topic: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html (and also includes a pointer to a counter-point that he refutes as well in another link...) ...jim On 10/10/12 4:26 PM, Debasish Ray Chawdhuri wrote: Since the question was asked on the mailing list, other people following the mailing list should get the answers. There is no hide-and-seek here. Most of the time you should not contact the sender directly. Just in case you do (for whatever weird reason, is it too bad to be shared?), you can still copy address of the sender.

You may be thinking of the mailing list as some kind of help forum, where you are the expert and and resolve people's problems, so you give an answer only to them. But that should not be the intention of the list. It is more made for a community discussion. When you give an answer, other people should be able to see that answer and ask more questions or possibly challenge your answer. This is how a community should work. Why do you want to deal with individuals? On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Jim Graham<james.graham at oracle.com> wrote: Indeed I prefer it this way as I don't always want to burden the list with my replies.

This list gives the option, but "Reply-To-List" lists don't have any convenient way to reply to just the sender... ...jim

On 10/10/12 12:06 PM, Tom Eugelink wrote:

ps. why doesn't the list set the mailing list as the reply to?

Grrr. ;-) In Thunderbird I have a "reply" and "reply list" button, only for these mailinglist emails. Tom

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