list-admin :: default to 'reply-to' the list ?

Eberhard Moenkeberg emoenke at gwdg.de
Wed Nov 1 08:37:04 CST 2006


Hi,

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:54:38AM -0500, Jerry Yu wrote:

>>    I am new to this list. Not sure the topic is covered before or not.
>>    I'd like to have the posts have 'reply-to' set to the list. This way, when
>>    I hit reply, I am sending to the list (as well as to the thread), instead
>>    of to an individual or his/her post, which my comments may or may directly
>>    concern.
>>    wonder how many interesting bits had been lost (from the list archive)
>>    since the author didn't take the trouble to CC the list after replying to
>>    an individual.
>
> Reply-to-All accomplishes this quite nicely; Reply only goes back to
> an individual.  This is intentional. :-)

Reply-to-All pollutes you with private duplicates, once you have answered 
something. As long as the thread is live, again and again, more and 
more individuals...

Cheers -e
-- 
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)



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