Bryen wrote: > On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 08:29 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote: > >> I, personally, like top posting. If, for some reason, my memory is so >> poor that I can't remember what the thread is about I can always scroll >> down to find out. >> > So do I, and I find myself taking a bit longer to respond because of > bottom posting. But I can see it has its benefits. > >> A couple other things you might need to know to save you from getting >> roasted over the flames: >> >> Reply ONLY to the list. NEVER to the person [ unless requested to do so >> ]. I use Firefox and there is a rather hard to find extension called >> "Reply to List". You can Google for it. Follow the instructions on the >> site to get it set up. Otherwise use "Reply to All" and remove the extra >> address's >> > This actually is something of a challenge. Many of us by force of habit > click "reply" and I keep having to stop myself before sending and > re-doing the whole thing. On other mailing lists, the system always > changes the "reply-to" header to the actual mailing list. So when we > click "reply", it won't reply directly to the person instead of the > list. Can't we make that change here? It would probably make many > lives easier. I know manmail does this because I've configured it as > such to do so in the past.
There is no easy answer to this dilemma of a reply to list or reply to emailer. Every list needs to come to its own conclusion and this one has it so that a reply goes to the sender only. Other lists I'm on that have a reply to list as the default are bombarded with requests to change it to a reply to sender. A very nice compromise is to read this list on gmane.org with a news reader (like Thunderbird). In this case, the reply is to the "newsgroup", which gets filtered to the mailing list. I highly recommend it. http://www.gmane.org -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
