On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 11:19, John Logsdon wrote: > There are three ways of tackling this as far as I see: > > First would be to make the list a Reply to Sender so that most of us don't > see the replies. This would keep the traffic down and if any topic was of > interest to another member, s/he could ask the originator whether it had > been solved or the solution could also be posted as a summary. One > advantage of Reply to Sender is that it is only the Sender sees the > multiple messages sent saying the same thing from good souls around the > world who haven't seen the N-1 other messages... > This seems to depend on the mail reader. This already is the default behaviour with me (Evolution mail reader). I have to select "Reply-to-All" to send the message to r-help as well -- and then it goes to Cc list as well. It seems that some other mail software behaves differently. It seems that R-help mail has two candidates to Reply:
From: this field is the original poster Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Obviously my mail reader picks only "From", but John's picks both "From" and "Sender". Some other mail lists add to headers a new field "Reply-To" which equals to "From" (original poster). It seems that this would be sufficient to make many mail readers to use this as a default address. Another issue is whether it is nice to divert a public discussion to a private conversation. In several cases the solutions to the problem remain private as well. After all, the purpose of the mailing list is a public discussion instead of a public call to a private discussion. cheers, jari oksanen -- Jari Oksanen -- Oulu, Finland. "But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain; The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men, Gang aft agley, An'lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy!" (Robert Burns) ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html