Had to modify because the list rejected it because out -- of -- office was detected in the message,.
Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] something wrong with the list (or its members) > Well there is a further catch. > > The first reply toa post, if you do a reply to all, it will grab the sender > and the list address. Then the next reply can do a reply all and they will > get the list address. > > The problem arises when someone just does a reply and it goes directly to > the sender. A reply all won't help. You have to manually type the list > address back in. > > The reasons lists are set up this way is to prevent loops. > > Say person A goes on vacation and sets an autorespond message to anyone that > sends him email. > > He gets sent an email from the mailing list. He autoresponds back to the > list saying he is out --- of --- the ---- office. > > The list forwards that message to everyone in the list, including person A. > Person A hen autoforwards, again, his out --- of ---- office message, which gets > distributed to the list and back to him, etc. > > Several mailing lists have means to deal with that so you can have the list > address as the default reply to. > > Adam Lang > Systems Engineer > Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company > http://www.rutgersinsurance.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Yura Pismerov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 10:54 AM > Subject: Re: [Samba] something wrong with the list (or its members) > > > > Eric wrote: > > > > > > On 10/18 10:24, Yura Pismerov wrote: > > > > should consider setting up reply-to-list option. > > > > I'd like to know what people think about it... > > > > > > When I hit "reply" it goes to Yura. There should be a reply-to-list > > > but I'm not sure how to set that up in mailing lists. > > > > > > So probably (my theory), people need to know their MUA and a > > > list-reply ("L" in mutt). > > > > Well, hitting reply-to-all in any MUA will do the trick, but this is not > > something regular users usually care about. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Eric > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > > > -- > > > > Yuri Pismerov, Sr. System Administrator, > > TUCOWS.COM INC. (416) 535-0123 ext. 1352 > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
