On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 09:33 -0400, Kurt Guenther wrote:> It looks like the reply to isn''t set up on the list server?
No it''s changed. In a nut shell. Hitting reply sends reply to sender of
email. Defaults to private.
Just about every mailer has a Reply To All, which does just that. So in
the case of mailing lists. It seems many are migrating in that
direction. Which technically is the proper way to go.
>From a habit and laziness standpoint it''s a total pain. From a
technical
and logical point of view. It makes total sense.
This came up not to long ago on the LARTC list. I was for it being the
old way. Till a user provided the following. After reading all (long
reads but necessarily) I reversed my stance and had to agree with list
admins decision.
First read:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
Then, the rebuttal:
http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html
Finally, the rebuttal to the rebuttal:
http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/listreplyto.txt
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Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
http://www.obsidian-studios.com