MacPorts Mailing Lists

[Rainer Müller]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 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.

If you do not want to be on the reply list when other people hit the
"Reply All" button on your messages, configure your mail client to set
the Mail-Followup-To header [1] to the list address. Unfortunately, most
mail clients are incapable to do so.

Rainer

[1] http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html