2009/11/1 Barbara Duprey <[email protected]>
> Just a thought -- there is a link that can be provided into the archives
> for a particular thread. What if either (in order of preference) the list
> manager, a moderator, or anybody on the list who knows how, sent a message
> to the unsubscribed poster containing that link? The poster would not have
> to subscribe (thereby getting what could potentially be a dismaying number
> of messages -- and often leading to a "please unsubscribe me" message). Yet
> they'd be able to follow the discussion, wouldn't they, to see any responses
> on the thread?
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I *think* that the main source of the problem is that the moderator's e-mail
program and/or his/her installation of the list management software is
mis-configured.
The list management software is called "ezmlm" ("Easy Mail List Management"
or some such). The ezmlm manual is on-line at <http://www.ezmlm.org/manual/>.
Section 1.6 discusses replying to a message from an ezmlm mailing list (see
http://www.ezmlm.org/manual/Replying.html#Replying>). It suggests quite
clearly that a "Reply all" should go to the list *and* to the unsubscribed
originator of the message.
Perhaps the moderator has overriden the default "reply to" address in the
ezmlm config file(s) and/or in his/her own e-mail program ????
In the immortal words of Sandy Powell: can you hear me, mother?
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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