On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > But more importantly, being in a mailing list is not about getting personal > mail - you should expect to be replied *on* the list, not to your personal > email address. In many lists, insisting to be replied in person is considered > rude, even a faux pas. Most lists do not even allow a person to post if they > are not subscribed first (this was not done only to curb spam! The first > spam I ever got was in 1997. Mailing lists have existed well before that). >
I recall some discusions that started as posts to both [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ivrixdiscuss . Due to reply-to considerations, people answering from ivrix never bothred replying to the xfree list, and people subscribed to both lists had to forward some interesting messages explicitly In other words: Reply-To: keeps the discution to exatly one list, without hope to "invite" others, or to allow a discuion to span more than one list. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
