Re: A starter task

On 9/16/24 00:32, Tom Lane wrote:
> sia kc <siavosh(dot)kasravi(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> About reply to all button, I think only sending to mailing list address
>> should suffice. Why including previous recipients too?
>
> It's a longstanding habit around here for a couple of reasons:
>
> * The mail list servers are occasionally slow. (Our infrastructure
> is way better than it once was, but that still happens sometimes.)
> If you directly cc: somebody, they can reply to that copy right away
> whether or not they get a copy from the list right away.
>
> * pgsql-hackers is a fire hose. cc'ing people who have shown interest
> in the thread is useful because they will get those copies separately
> from the list traffic, and so they can follow the thread without
> having to dig through all the traffic.
>

True, but it's also up to the client - the messages sent through the
mailing list have the appropriate headers (List-Id etc.) and it's up to
the client to show the "reply to list" button. Thunderbird does, for
example. I thought gmail would too, but perhaps it doesn't.

regards

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Tomas Vondra