On Mon, 18 May 1998 11:40:26 -0400 (EDT), Scott Ellis wrote: >I'm afraid Ill have to drag out this again. Please read: >http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
Read it, laughed at every point in it as every single part of it is false and misleading. It looks like it was written years ago and fails to address the most important point I made... Without the reply-to it forces the users of the list to cull the To/CC list else we are sending out duplicates of every message to an ever increasing number of recipiants. I loved his biased view of of how many keystrokes it takes since he does take the above problem into consideration. The only valid issue he raises is a technical one where a user wishes replies directed back to a different address. This is near moot because in this day and age most people are sending from their valid email. So three conditions must be met to make this point valid: 1: The person sets a reply-to different than his current address. 2: The person reading wants to reply. 3: The person replying wants to do so privately. In mailing lists most messages are sent by people from their current and valid address, are read by a vast majority of people but never replied to by them, and when a reply is made it is, more often than not by an order of at least a magnitude, to the list and not to the individual. Let's compare that to the alternative, no reply-to set and people not culling the To/CC field. Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Scott Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> M.C. Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bill Leach Those are the names of all the people that I have replied to in the course of the "dselect oddities" thread. If I had not culled the list, if others on that list had not culled the list, we would be sending out 7 copies of each message. 1 to the list and 6 to people on the above list (which numbers 7, the 6 comes from a message not going to the sender). Remember, that thread was fairly self-contained. I've been in discussions on lists that would involve 20-30 members from the list. That is 20-30 copies of each message by the end. Now, which is more common? People wanting private replies from a public list going to a different account than the one they use, or people not culling the to/cc list? Which causes the most damage? Not culling the to/cc list. That issue was not addressed at all in that page. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus | employer's. They hired me for my ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my opinions! ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]