Re: Why can't you guys not even properly run a mailing list?
- To: MISC
- Subject: Re: Why can't you guys not even properly run a mailing list?
- From: Christopher Biggs <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 17 Jun 2000 17:30:37 +1000
- In-Reply-To: Jaap van Ganswijk's message of "Fri, 16 Jun 2000 03:07:01 +0200"
- References: <3.0.6.32.20000616030701.01effbd0@pop.xs4all.nl>
- Sender: chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Jaap van Ganswijk <ganswijk@xs4all.nl> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:
> Hi,
>
> I just got some personal answers to reactions I thought I had posted
> to the list, but a short examination showed that I had walked in the
> old trap again of just clicking the reply button without changing the
> to-address, that this brain-dead mailing list still requires.
Not everybody likes "reply goes to list by default". I can't speak
for the list administrator, but I happen to think it sucks.
Munging the reply-to to point to the list breaks the ability to
*choose* whether to reply to sender or to list. In that case
there's no way to reply to just the sender, short of manually pasting
in their address.
On a proper mailer, you have two reply commands --- reply to sender,
reply to all recipients.
See also http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
What would be cool, is if a listserver let each subscriber control how
their messages are munged...
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Christopher Biggs -- chris@stallion.oz.au -- Stallion Technologies Australia.
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