On 11 Aug 2005 at 16:42, Brad Beyenhof wrote:

> On 11/08/05, David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > It causes problems in one of two ways:
> > 
> > 1. it either inconveniences the people who are paying attention to
> > remove the extra address when replying, OR
> > 
> > 2. it inconveniences the person lists in the Reply-To along with the
> > list, by causing them to get two copies of those messages.
> 
> That's not the whole picture. People who include the Reply-To can also
> set the list not to send a duplicate message. . . .

No, the list setting only controls duplicated TO: and CC: addresses, 
and the problem is *not* a duplicate address -- it's the recipient 
address plus the list address.

> . . . This can be problematic
> in its own ways (as previously described), but I find this to be less
> obnoxious than receiving duplicate messages.

There isn't any subscriber setting that solves the problem.

> However, I was on the digest for a while (when traffic was
> unbelievably heavy), and I actually *liked* receiving replies to
> myself as well as to the list. This way, I was able to see the answers
> to specific questions immediately, without having to wait for a new
> Digest or needing to visit the archive pages.

Well, that's perhaps one justification for it, but it seems a not 
very compelling one to me.

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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