In my experience in running majordomo lists, the reply-to: has always
been controversial. When we moved the Boston Computer Society
Internet SIG list from Marty Hannigan, we had the reply-to set to reply
back to the list, and the previous owner of the list, (eg. Marty)
complained bitterly. At the BCS, our default was reply-to the list when we
would create a list. We never achieved a consensus and the group leader
decided not to chage it. On another list I run the members of the list
voted overwhelmingly to change the reply-to to reply to the original
sender. When I set up a list for other groups on the BLU server, that is
always one of the issues I lay out for the person who will administer the
list. On a busy list with experienced people, setting reply-to to the
original sender has the affect of reducing traffic on the list by eliminating
personal replies, but has another affect when people explicitly copy the
list, they do not delete the other recipients, resulting in some recipients
receiving multiple copies. When the reply-to is set back to the list, some
of the list traffic is replies intended for the original sender, resulting in
some unintended list traffic.
--
Jerry Feldman
Contractor, eInfrastructure Partner Engineering
508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/
Compaq Computer Corp.
200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1
Marlboro, Ma. 01752
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