JC Dill wrote: > 2) While you complain about the effects using MS mail clients has on > your mailing lists, I can equally complain about what I firmly believe > is the antiquated and useless practice of setting up a DISCUSSION LIST > with Reply-To to the author, and not the list. It leads to posts that > are sent to dozens of individuals. Just as lazy MS mail client users > start typing their reply where their client drops the cursor (at the > top, resulting in top posting), lazy list users such as most people on > this list select "reply to all" and then don't bother adjusting the ever > increasing list of names that the reply goes to. Both types of users > justify their actions by saying that since the software sets-up their > reply this way, it must be OK. Well, I think it's pretty damn lazy to > send a reply to the list, and to every other address that happens to be > in the list headers, just because that's how the software most easily > lets you reply back to the discussion list. And I really detest the > duplicate messages this causes ME to receive. IMHO, this is worse than > top-posting, with top-posting at least I only get one message.
It's the job of a decent MLM to deal with this. Mj2 can; all others should.
