Well, Phillip already said most of the relevant Mail.
So here's my ME-TOO-NOT-LIKE-THE-NEW mail:
> >> The best text on the subject i've seen is ``Reply-To'' Munging Considered
> >> Harmful by Chip Rosenthal.
> >> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> > And the rebuttle: http://www.metasystema.org/reply-to-useful.mhtml
> > I personally like Reply-To: set to the mailing list. All the lists I'm on
> > are set up that way and there have been no problems that I could see (yes,
> > you see the occasional private message sent but it's not that big a
> > problem).
> Hello again everyone! Good to be back!
Same here :) I already got a nervous breakdown, seeing that while I
have been 5 days over the ocean just 27 'new' messages arrived !
> I have read both the above web articles. I'd like to cast my vote in favour of
> REPLY-TO: == THE LIST
> 1. I don't want to receive two messages when someone replies to me and the list
> 2. With the old system, if someone forgot to change the header, there was a
> spurious message, which I deleted. Some people might object to the waste of
> bandwidth, but it merely gave me one extra message to delete.
> With the new system, if someone forgets to change the header, the information
> doesn't reach the list. This causes a bigger waste of bandwidth, because you
> get more people answering the same question, not having seen each other's
> replies. And it stifles discussion, because replies-to-replies often never get
> generated (and these are sometimes the most useful).
I just answered to Philips Mail, and only becaus I checked to be shure
I recogniced that the list wasn't at all in the TO or CC headers !
> So the new method gives less info to the list for more use of bandwidth. IMHO,
> not good.
Like resending mails
> I am on several lists, of which about half work the old way (reply to the list
> by default). This is very convenient on all of them. Of the others, on the one
> where I have asked questions I have received substantially the same reply
> privately from several people, but the discussion hasn't borne fruit on the
> list.
Also my mailer (Pegasus/Win) just offers the ordinary 'reply' button.
No selectable stuff, so I have to edit. End if you take a look at
Ethans Mail: he is using some Web service, sending out dual mails ..
And I REALY hate duplicate mails ... especialy when produced due
uncommon machine features. As with all machine made decision you
have a variety between right and wrong, and Reply-To enshures that
the percentage of unwanted messages is way lower than the 'new'
way.
Last but not least, it's the RFC 822 way - and standards are the
only real chance to go along.
Gruss
H.
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HRK
Received on Thu Feb 03 2000 - 11:59:33 GMT