[Bf-committers] Reducing email overhead

Joe Eagar joeedh at gmail.com
Mon Jan 8 19:13:05 CET 2007


Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Because of the increased traffic here I'm not even reading all mails 
> anymore... that's a real shame. So, we might decide to put back this 
> default for mailing lists:
>
> -> a "reply-to" goes to sender only
>
> A "reply-to" to the mailinglist then has to be explicitely done, for 
> example by using a 'reply to all'.
>
> Anyone would object to this? I agree it can lead to confusement and 
> accidents... but you get used to it after a while. Several other lists 
> I'm on use this convention, and according to the mailing list software 
> it is "strongly advised".
>
> -Ton-
We could have a separate list for compiling problems, that would help a 
lot. . .

Joe


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