At 09:50 PM 11/29/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>
>This in mind, I think that it might be time to change the reply-to
>address from "list" to "sender". What this means is, unless you
>specifically reply to the list (by selecting the appropriate option, or
>by specifying the list address), your response will go off-list, to only
>the person who sent it.
>
.......snip......
>I would like to know what people think about this. I am strongly
>leaning towards changing the reply-to fields, but I would like to hear
>your opinions before I make a final decision. I suspect that the
>majority of you will understand the reasoning and agree. Either way,
>since I'm soliticing opinions, the change won't be made until next week
>as I'm going to be away on business for a few days.
>
I would worry a bit about losing information -- since the human tendency
seems to be to hit reply without checking where it is going, suddenly a lot
of responses that would be of value, for example on techtalk, would just go
to the person who asked, and the rest of us would never know the answer.
One idea used on a couple of lists I belong to is that the person who asks
a question creates a summary of the answers to post to the list. This
might be less of an issue here, but I would definitely prefer to see all
the posts to techtalk....
Just my two yen
Janus
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