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[Alex Glikson <GLIKSON@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:50:02AM -0700, Bhuvaneswaran A wrote:
> > Stefano,
> > 
> > If a subscriber reply to a mailing list message, it's sent to the
> > author only. Each subscriber should use "Reply to All" every time, to
> > post a reply to mailing list.
> > 
> > Can you please configure the mailing list and set reply-to header as
> > mailing list address, openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. With this setup,
> > if the user click "reply" in his email client, the message is sent to
> > mailing list, instead of the author.
> 
> This discussion invariably turns up on most open source mailing lists
> from time to time. People never agree on the "best" setting. Asking
> for this reply-to setting to be changed is merely shifting the pain
> away from one set of users (which includes you) onto other set of
> users (which includes me). There's no net gain here. Just shifting
> the pain.  As such IMHO we should leave it as it is.

Is it possible to configure the behavior per user? I have found several 
threads raising the need for such a feature, but don't know if anyone 
actually bothered to implement it (seems to be rather straightforward).

Regards,
Alex