At 5:04 PM +0100 10/16/03, Matt Sergeant wrote: >I don't like Reply-To munging personally (I've had two things happen with it - >accidentally posting private replies to the list, and cross-post stealing, where you >try to reply to a cross posted mail where one list does Reply-To munging, so it >prevents you from replying to both lists), but it's a very personal thing, and I'm >not so anal about it that I unsubscribe from lists because of this policy.
Personally, I prefer when the list-server places the list address in the reply-to field, because replying to the list is what I and other people want to be doing 90% of the time. I would rather have to change the address manually for the few instances when I want a private conversation than have to do it many times to continue a list conversation. (Whereas, not having the reply-to is more appropriate on an announcement list. But sqlite is a *discussion* list.) I can't count the number of times I accidentally sent a private response, and was waiting for the message to come back to me via the list, before I realized what happened. As for cross-posts, I do recognize the problem there, about how reply-to would only reply to one of them and your having to manually add the others. But once again, cross-posts are relatively rare in discussion lists. As for the old list, I do agree with the sentiment of sending a notification message to it also, in case some people there didn't get on the new list. Now a question, if it hadn't already been answered: Does your new mail server support the concept of a web archive, so we could read this list's messages without getting them in our inbox? While I normally take the 'individual emails' option and let my Eudora filters shuffle them into separate boxes per mailing list, I find that the option for web-only can be useful. -- Darren Duncan P.S. In case my presence here is a surprise, I was on the old sqlite list for awhile, but just hadn't posted anything to it before. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
