samba - Oct 2002 - Fw: something wrong with the list (or its members)

Had to modify because the list rejected it because out -- of -- office was
detected in the message,.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
Cc: <samba@samba.org>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] something wrong with the list (or its members)

> Well there is a further catch.
>
> The first reply toa post, if you do a reply to all, it will grab the
sender
> and the list address.  Then the next reply can do a reply all and they
will
> get the list address.
>
> The problem arises when someone just does a reply and it goes directly to
> the sender.  A reply all won't help.  You have to manually type the
list
> address back in.
>
> The reasons lists are set up this way is to prevent loops.
>
> Say person A goes on vacation and sets an autorespond message to anyone
that
> sends him email.
>
> He gets sent an email from the mailing list.  He autoresponds back to the
> list saying he is out --- of ---  the ---- office.
>
> The list forwards that message to everyone in the list, including person
A.
> Person A hen autoforwards, again, his out --- of ---- office message,
which gets
> distributed to the list and back to him, etc.
>
> Several mailing lists have means to deal with that so you can have the
list
> address as the default reply to.
>
> Adam Lang
> Systems Engineer
> Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
> http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yura Pismerov" <ypismerov@tucows.com>
> To: "Eric" <emaquili@ductape.net>
> Cc: <samba@samba.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 10:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] something wrong with the list (or its members)
>
>
> > Eric wrote:
> > >
> > > On 10/18 10:24, Yura Pismerov wrote:
> > > > should consider setting up reply-to-list option.
> > > > I'd like to know what people think about it...
> > >
> > > When I hit "reply" it goes to Yura.  There should be a
reply-to-list
> > > but I'm not sure how to set that up in mailing lists.
> > >
> > > So probably (my theory), people need to know their MUA and a
> > > list-reply ("L" in mutt).
> >
> > Well, hitting reply-to-all in any MUA will do the trick, but this is
not
> > something regular users usually care about.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Eric
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> >
> > Yuri Pismerov, Sr. System Administrator,
> > TUCOWS.COM INC. (416) 535-0123  ext. 1352
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