At 11:56 AM 8/14/2007, Kent Johnson wrote: >Dick Moores wrote: > > When sending a reply to a post, to the list, should we also address > > the reply to the author of the post to which we are replying? > > (There's gotta be an easier way to say that..) If we do so, then the > > author gets a duplicate of our reply. > >This is configurable for each subscriber. Go to the tutor web page at >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > >Enter your subscription email at the bottom where it says, "To >unsubscribe from Tutor, get a password reminder, or change your >subscription options enter your subscription email address:" > >Set "Avoid duplicate copies of messages?" to Yes.
Great! > > Ten years ago or so I managed a Majordomo list, and I recall that it > > was possible for the list manager to configure the list to include a > > "Reply-To" header. If this would be possible for the admins to do > > with Tutor -- to include a "Reply-To: tutor@python.org" header in the > > posts sent out by the list, it would enable us to address a reply > > only to the list by hitting the "Reply" button. > >Surely you have been reading the list long enough to know that this >comes up every three months as a topic! No, you can't assume that because I'm a long-term subscriber that I have always faithfully read the list. If I had, I'd be much better at Python than I am! > It's not going to change. I'm >not going to discuss it (and I hope no one else will either). Search the >archives if you want to see previous discussions. Well, I don't see that it's all that bad that I brought it up again. The newcomers undoubtedly will benefit from your advice, as I did. Or does the new welcome message mention how to avoid duplicate copies of messages? If not, it should. Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
