regarding the reply address on the list....

From: Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com>
Date: Wed Feb 2 22:38:37 2000

>Jay West wrote:

> I've had a fair amount of experience using (and setting up and running)
> quite a few mailing lists. The way they were always set up was the user sent
> to the list, and the list sent the mail back to all the subscribers with the
> reply address being the user who sent the post originally. In this manner if
> you hit the REPLY button to a post, your message goes to the person who sent
> the post, not the list. If you hit the REPLY ALL button, then your response
> went to the list AND the original poster. This is how 99.9% of all the lists
> I've ever seen are configured.
>
> As a result, I've always wondered why on classiccmp the reply address was
> the list. Using that method the benefit is that everyone can see what's
> going on. The drawback is it's very very easy to send posts intended to be
> private to the list.

Jerome Fine replies:

Thanks to Jay and Derek from this list member as well.

What ever you two or the others decide is fine with me.
Received on Wed Feb 02 2000 - 22:38:37 GMT