=== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Mosier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 8:31 AM Subject: Re: Why not a news server?
> Yeah, I've too noticed this inconvience of having to use reply all to get it > to go back to the list. The most frustrating thing about this is that this > is a setting in the listserv software, whether it be elzm, mailman, > majordomo, or listserv. The person that has set this up has configured it > so that the default reply to address is that of the send instead of the > list. A simple change in the configuration would alleviate that and would > likely increase participation on the list. As an example, let's say Joe has > a problem but I have no clue what his resolution might be. However, John > replies to it and suggests something to Joe. John's suggestion isn't the > solution, but it sparks recollection in the minds of others as the what the > resolution indeed is. Now, if John's reply never makes it to the list then > you lose that possibility. Then, when someone has something to say to > someone that is off topic they can switch the email addresses quite easily. This too has been debated ad inifinitum. There are valid points for and against doing this. However, the principal of least surprise requires not doing it, and for a list that gets many non-subscriber posts, that *also* prohibits rewriting the reply-to. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
