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

Dhawal Doshy dhawal at netmagicsolutions.com
Wed Nov 1 11:25:34 CST 2006


Rob Munsch wrote:
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> Ken Snider wrote:
>> Daniel Silverman wrote:
>>> Many people want to munge Reply-To headers. They believe it makes  
>>> reply-to-list easier, and it encourages more list traffic. It really  
>>> does neither, and is a very poor idea. 
>> Really?
>>
>> It reduces email traffic, supporting the "principle of minimal-bandwidth", 
>> and is doubly important in today's spam-laden morass that is email.
>>
>> Without a munged Reply-To header, your choice is a) reply to the author, or 
>> b) generate two emails, one to the author, one to the list. How is this 
>> sensible if the vast majority of responses really only need one destination 
>> - the list?
> 
> Thunderbird:
> 
> 1) hit reply-all
> 2) doubleclick the non-list address
> 3) quickly tap Delete twice
> 4) remaining line is the list, click twice to make it "to" instead of "cc"
> 
> result: one single email, which you are reading now.

And probably world peace.. i don't understand why a list configuration 
can be so much of a debate / discussion / argument.

I've never seen so much activity on this list for *surprise* 'linux' and 
'poweredge servers'

2 units of whatever currency..
- dhawal



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