[Ocaml-biz] IDEs

[Blair Zajac]

William Neumann wrote:

> On Sep 9, 2004, at 9:32 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:
> 
>> I'd really rather not get into that discussion.
>>
>> Is the issue that you've got the old mailing list address around?
> 
> 
> No.  It's just that this list sets the From field as from the composer 
> of the message and does not set the reply-to field to the list address, 
> so the default recipient for any replies is the author of the message 
> and not the list (ass-backwards behavior for a mailing list); and the 
> default for a reply-all is to: goes to the author and cc: to the list, 
> creating duplicate messages for the previous author (and everyone else 
> in the distribution chain).
> 
> It's an annoyance.

Well, there's been many arguments on this issue either way, so I think I'll 
leave it as is.  The main Caml list has the current behavior.

You can change your Mailman preferences to reduce the number of duplicates.

Regards,
Blair

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