At 9:35 -0400 7/23/2001, Steve Torrence wrote:
>Why is this list set up so that when you reply it goes to the
>author of the mail instead of the list? Only if you use REPLY TO
>ALL do you get the list address in the CC but then you have the
>original author in the TO so he gets 2 copies of the message.
>
>It seems having it set to reply to the list would be best.
>
>Steve
Sometime in the future (hopefully soon), all mailing list managers will
follow the RFC which specifies these headers, among others:
List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
and all user mail programs will recognize them, and provide a nice way to
reply, subscribe, unsubscribe, etc.
Perhaps oddly, at least one of the Unix text-based mail programs--pine
(from U of Washington) already does.
Then this old argument will go away. NOT! But at least then a sensible
answer will be "upgrade your mail program and learn to use it".
Another telling reason: the other setting (replies go to list) combines
with various broken Mail Transfer Agents in the world to create mail
loops...which can get to several hundred or a few thousand messages--to all
the list members...before the right user(s) is(are) removed from the list.
--John
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John Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Port Ludlow, WA, USA
