On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Jay West wrote:
> I've always wondered why the list was set up the way it was. It could be the
> mail software that Derek had available to use, which is not the same as the
> mailing list software he's got now. Or perhaps there was a concious decision
> to do it that way on his part or the part of the list community as a whole.
> As a relative newbie to the list, I have no idea. Just some random
> thoughts...
Because:
a) it makes it more of a BBS, with all messages being contributed to the
public good by default instead of private threads being spawned off
b) who the hell wants to have to read the same message TWICE? (once from
the list and once from the replier)
c) it's an incredible pain in the ass having to edit the reply-to
addresses for every damn message you reply to
Besides, despite what the aforementioned article says, the previous list
reply-to mechanism was working, and working well. The article is just a
masturbatory entreaty for one persons personal preferences, and does not
really take into account convenience for the overall list. Sure, once in
a while people would goof and send a private reply to the list, but see a,
b and c above.
Change it back.
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