Mark, Thanks very much for the detailed explanation (and all the time and help you provide).
I will do my best to train the users, but for now, I have just added a note in the footer to avoid the "Reply to All". Of course, no one read footers, but what the heck. Steve Mark Sapiro wrote: > Steve Campbell wrote: > > >> Does the option "include_list_post_headers" being set to no resolve the >> problem of people who "reply to all", which sends the reply to the >> original poster and also the list again? I want the reply to only go to >> the original poster. >> > > > No. "reply to all" in virtually every MUA will go to the list as well > as to the sender. We go to great pains to include the list address > somewhere to facilitate replying to the list. In fact, if you are able > to set Full Personalization which replaces the To: header with the > recipient's address, we put the list address in a Cc: header so "reply > to all" will still include the list. > > I recognize that this may not be appropriate for an announce list so > see below: > > > >> I have everyone set to moderated except for a few people, and this is >> sort of an announce-only list. I would like to not have to discard all >> of these messages as moderator. >> > > > You have a few choices. On an announce list, it is usually better to > set member_moderation_action to Reject and set an appropriate message > (perhaps including "if you don't 'reply to all' to list messages, you > won't see this rejection") in member_moderation_notice, or if you > really want to discard them, set member_moderation_action to Discard. > Either way, you don't have to manually deal with them. > > Other possibilities are to try to train your list members not to "reply > to all" (probably futile), or to set require_explicit_destination to > No and send posts with a Bcc: to the list so the list address doesn't > appear in To:, From: or Cc: headers. > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
