L.D wrote:
>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.
Perhaps, but that was *my* opinion. I have never said that anything I've
writen have been in any way in conjunction with Michaels thoughts.
>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.
Correct, that's his opinion. I've also suggested that he changes into
another mailer instead of sendmail to reduce the overhead on the server -
but he hasn't changed the software, AFAIK anyway.
>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.
IMHO there aren't that many responses. Of course one could argue that
*this* mail should have been sent off-list. But I feel that it should be
on-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.
Less than 5% of the mails I send in respons to list-mail are sent directly
to the original sender. I don't know if I'm using the list wrong by doing
so, but if someone asks a question on-list the answer should IMO be on-list
as well so that others can benefit from it (if they have the time to read
it that is).
>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.
No it isn't. I'm the source for this mail, therefor my address should be
shown in the from field. To sort it (if your mailer can) you would sort
after reply-to address (or use the To address, but that sometimes gets
wrong since some people respond to arachne-digest).
>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.
There's an even greater chance that the subject haven't changed but it's
still on-list and is about something else (this mail is a good example).
Personally I can't see how you can be on mailinglists unless the mail is
sorted, having it all in one giant heap would just make me upset.
>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.
Really? I've been on... lets see... well, 7 (and I'm not counting
arachne-developer and small lists for university classes). Only one of
these lists had it setup the other way around, and that was a constant
problem for me when I wanted to respond.
This is how I do it currently:
Ctrl-R, write response
This is how I needed to do it if we change:
Ctrl-R, Change window, mark the senders address, copy it, change window,
cut the address, write response.
That's not an easy way to do it IMHO. Agreed it would be easier to do it
with Arachne (especially since I could rewrite insight if I wanted to) but
it isn't my choice when it comes to a mail program. Another approach would
be to do like pine that asks which it should send to, but that's also a bit
annoying IMHO.
//Bernie
