MacPorts Mailing Lists

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 7, 2009, at 02:46, Martin Krischik wrote:

> I noticed something annoying about the mailing list: Quite often  
> when I
> hit reply the reply goes to the original author and not the mailing  
> list.

This always occurs on macports-users and macports-dev. This is  
intentional, following this reasoning:

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


> I did some experimenting and noticed that this happens when more then
> one address is added to "To" address. And this in turn happens when  
> you
> just click reply on svn commits.
>
> Maybe we could fine-tune the svn commit posting so that this won't
> happen any more.

The lists are configured the way we want them.

On the discussion lists (macports-users and macports-dev), to reply,  
you should almost always use the "Reply All" feature of your email  
program so that the reply goes both to the list and to the person who  
wrote the message you're replying to. If you just use the "Reply"  
feature your message will only go to the author and not to the list  
and the list won't benefit from the discussion.

On macports-changes, the Reply-To is set so that you should just  
"Reply" and your reply will go to macports-dev and to the person who  
made the commit. It was deliberately set up this way because we want  
discussion of commits to occur on macports-dev, and just in case the  
committer is not on macports-dev, the message should go to the  
committer too. You should not post messages to macports-changes  
yourself (it is for automated messages from the Subversion repository  
only) so you should not use "Reply All" or manually address messages  
to macports-changes.

I am not on macports-tickets so I don't know how it's set up. I would  
hope it's set up the same way as macports-changes.

I'm not sure how macports-announce is set up. It's announce-only so  
most people don't have permission to post there. Hopefully that  
list's Reply To is set to macports-users.