Bernie,
If, in Michael's opinion, "most of the time the mail is supposed to go
back to the list," then he would have set up InSight with "Reply To" as
the default.
He has not, and it has been made clear by him that he wants to reduce
the amount of server time dedicated to the list.
And, in actuality, I'd say that 50% of the responses to people that
currently show up on the list [like how to change subscription] should
be sent off-list. A great number of responses to posting *are* sent to
the individual because it is a one-person query or problem that will not
benefit the list by posting it there.
And I must disagree as to what should be shown in the FROM field. If it
is mail from the server, then it should show [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the
source, because it *IS* the source.
There are many times when there is a thread that I simply am not
interested in following on the list [some of the Linux stuff is too far
beyond me for me to get any benefit from it] and I'd *like* to be able
to just delete that thread from the Index... but if I *did* do that,
then there is the chance that someone has that thread as the subject but
it's a personal message to me which I don't get because I deleted before
reading.
I have been on many mailing lists using majordomo and other list
servers, and this is the ONLY mailing list that does not insert itself
as the FROM in the messages sent.
l.d.
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On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 09:16:39 +0100, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> L.D wrote:
>> I know for a fact that majordomo software can be set up to:
>> ** show the LIST as the FROM [which would be nice -- we could then sort
>> "personal" from "list" mail right at the index level], and
>> ** the person who sent the message to the list can then be set up as the
>> REPLY TO e-mail address.
>> This is what is normally done on most of the mailing lists I've
>> participated in. It makes sense, and removes any & all excuses for
>> having Arachne use a non-standard default of "FROM" in replying to all
>> e-mail.
> That sounds problematic since most of the time the mail is supposed to go
> back to the list. IMNSHO Reply-To should always be the list and FROM be the
> person who sent the mail, thereby it's easy to see who sent it and it's
> easy to answer to the list.
> I do agree however that InSight needs to be changed in this regard. I even
> suggested a setting in arachne.cfg for it, but then it would be too slow in
> Michaels taste so no go :/
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