[MacPerl] OT:List history was Re: [MacPerl] OT: Reply-to and minimal munging

[robinmcf]

"Scott R. Godin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >all I want, when I hit the "reply" button to a message that came FROM the >list is that the reply go TO the list unless I so otherwise designate. If memory serves me right the reason for changing the mailing list from when it did have a reply-to header was to stop people posting in a reckless and haphazard fashion. I don't see it as a success from it's stated objective's point of view - I still see people posting follow ups to their own mails apologising for hitting send too soon, and not all of them have been list newbies either :-), and it doesn't seem to have filtered any of the FAQs (which certain Abigailian shadows make me believe this was what it was really all about - make 'em think before posting, they might actually read the docs). I guess I'm a reactionary at heart because I remember a time when this list had a reply to field and I was happier then not having to fart about with cut and pastes. Ronald J Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Not everyone will be satisfied. If it is changed, people will immediately >start asking for it the old way (I know this from experience). It was Machiavelli who pointed out the need to be wary of change - 'perche' un cambiamento tira l'altra' -once you start changing things people see that change is possible and start pushing for more and more changes. See these new MAIL TO fields are what started all of this current debate -'If they can add them, why can't they have a REPLY TO header as well'. But why were they added in the first place? If they were added for those of us who use OE (of whom I'm not one), when was this sounded out? Are OE users the (silent) majority? Do they have back channels to decide this stuff :-)? At least why not get rid of at least ONE of them, like WHO is going to SUBSCRIBE through a list that they aren't subscribed to and therefor won't be receiving postings from in the first place? Did the logic of this escape everyone involved the decision to add the field in question?