Wade Chandler
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Posted: January 03, 2009 01:35 by Wade Chandler
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The NetBeans mailing lists only require us to press reply in our mailing list emails to have the message sent to the list. This is the most general use case versus reply directly to the person who wrote the email message. It would be very handy to be able to change this in the mailing list options for a projects mailing list. The options might be: Reply to default [x] Reply to mailing list [ ] Reply directly to sender (Reply to All must be used to reply to list) and then folks can set their lists up as needed. |
Provide way to change the reply to options
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Jesse Silver
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Posted: January 03, 2009 01:59 by Jesse Silver
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Hi Wade- Interesting post - thanks for making the comment. I'm curious as to why pressing "reply all" is an unacceptable way to reply to the whole list? The way it currently stands, the user is left with this choice each and every time they reply to a list posting. This is also the email behavior I believe most people are accustomed to. Otherwise we will end up with confused users... What do you think? |
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Wade Chandler
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Posted: June 07, 2009 23:01 by Wade Chandler
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| Been busy for a while.Actually in many OSS projects I have been a part, see Apache as a whole, NetBeans, GlassFish, *.java.net, except for OpenSolaris and OpenJDK, the norm has been to press reply and it automatically send to the list versus the individual person. In most cases on a mailing list the general work flow is to communicate through the list, and if a person needs to have individual contact they will contact the person individually instead of sending a mail to a mailing list. When folks start replying to others directly instead of the list then the information which may be helpful to all will be lost if the person doesn't go back and resend or specifically use reply to all or the receiver doesn't go back and make sure the list gets the forward. This is the mail reason to help drive home sending most messages to the list so all get the information and it becomes publicly searchable the first time it is answered. |
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