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

Eberhard Moenkeberg emoenke at gwdg.de
Wed Nov 1 11:03:31 CST 2006


Hi,

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Todd Lyons wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:37:00AM -0500, Ken Snider wrote:

>> Lastly - principle of minimal effort: why support the default case that, for
>> the vast majority of cases, requires a poster to delete a recipient?
>> wouldn't it make more sense to have the list default reply actually go where
>> the vast majority of posts are *intended* to go?
>
> <sigh>  Another list.  The same argument. </sigh>
>
> If you have the option, use a mailer that supports list-reply for your
> mailing lists, and your regular Outlook or Thunderbird or Evolution for
> the rest of your email.  I use mutt, which supports this.  (I've tried
> to switch away from mutt.  I really have.  But all of the gui clients
> just plain suck.  mutt just sucks less. <tm> )
>
> As someone who has administered lots of mailing lists, I won't set it up
> any other way.  I guess it's a religious thing.  My religion says never
> set the Reply-To to the list.

This is kicking all the pine users into their ass.
Pine does not support list-reply.

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



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