> > Several people wrote....
> > > I wonder if you would prefer if the "Respond To" portion should be:
> > > "classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org"
> > > as it used to???? (Well it used to be: "classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu")
> > > I know that sometimes caused a bit of a problem for posts that were
> > > supposed to be off list, but I think that is the more intended aspect?????
> > 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.
> Actually, I've been investigating that, and that is _not_ what happens,
> at least not with my mailer.
> I am on a number of mailing lists. The ones which have Reply-to: pointing
> to the sender seem to have _very_ little discussion on them. Most people
> just send replies to the sender rather than to the list. The original
> poster gets a number of replies giving essentially the same information,
> since nobody can know that other people have already replied.
> On the other hand, the lists that have Reply-to: pointing to the list
> almost always have a lot of discussion on them.
> Posting to the list (and I've only done it twice) has _already_ become a
> pain for me. I guess I'll stay here, but while I have to fool around
> editing headers (or worse, editing files in my mail queue because I've
> forgotten to edit the headers), I'll not post anything like as much as I
> used to. Some of you might think that's a Good Thing, though ;-).
Through we're no always share the same idea, I'd prefer to read
your stuff.
Servus
hans
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Der Kopf ist auch nur ein Auswuchs wie der kleine Zeh.
H.Achternbusch
Received on Thu Feb 03 2000 - 14:45:43 GMT