Derek Martin wrote:
>
> Benjamin Scott wrote:
>
> >
> > On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> > > Some time in the not-too-distant past, this list's reply-to field got
> > > filled in with its own address.
> >
> > Yes, it was done at the request of <mumble> list members. The rationale was
> > something like, "This is an open discussion list, so it only makes sense to
> > make the default be to keep discussing things."
>
> That may be so, but the vocal majority appears to rather dislike it at
> the moment.
>
> > I maintain that software (mis)configuration is no excuse for not checking
> > the destination address of outgoing mail before you invoke the "Send"
> > function. Regardless of how a mailing list operates, you should think before
> > you post. :-)
>
> Sure, in principal I agree with you 100%, but I receive often over 400
> e-mails a day, and I reply to close to half of those. Aside from my
> e-mail methodology being extremely habitual and practiced as a result,
> manually entering addresses for people I rarely correspond with (such as
> list members who post very infrequently) and therefore don't have in my
> address book is very time consuming, perhaps unnecessarily so.
>
> Plus, as has been pointed out rather often as of late, many people seem
> to find it inconvenient. Besides which, there are a fair amount of new
> users popping in and out here, many of which may not ever have seen or
> heard of the reply-to header and would never expect that when they reply
> to a post from a buddy, that it would instead end up addressed to a ton
> of other people. They might even reveal embarassing details of some
> recent caper they engaged in. As a result, they might be reluctant to
add my vote to the get rid of Reply-to. Reply-all followed by deleting
the non-list works just fine.
jeff smith
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