reply address setting explanation

From: Jay West <west_at_tseinc.com>
Date: Thu Feb 3 06:23:31 2000

And - just so folks know... I didn't intentionally change the way the
reply-to address works, even though I prefer the new method.

When I set up the list I just installed a separate copy of majordomo
"straight out of the box". We host all our customer lists with majordomo,
primarily because majordomo is virtually the de-facto standard for internet
mailing lists world-wide. Yes, there are other mailing list server packages,
but none seem to have the installed base of majordomo. The default
installation of majordomo does what - you guessed it - reply-to is NOT
munged. Gee - I wonder why the author of majordomo did that. Hum...

I installed the standard default configuration, did some testing, and
started it back up. I'm so used to mailing lists having the reply-to set to
the original poster it really didn't dawn on me that classiccmp was set
differently although I knew that full well. The change was not intentional.

After the first post or two I saw about this topic I was going to change it
to work like the old list because obviously that's how it WAS set up. Then I
saw the lively discussion and thought perhaps its better to have everyone
get their opinions in and let any changes be determined without me. As you
might infer from previous posts, I don't want to be making any changes on my
own....

Regards,

Jay West
Received on Thu Feb 03 2000 - 06:23:31 GMT