Voting on Reply-To (Was: mailing list questions)
Doug Alcorn (doug@lathi.net)
14 May 2000 04:20:36 -0400
ishamael@themes.org writes:
> about this reply to thing, i still dont understand why..... its so annoying
> to hit reply-to-all, then delete the senders addy just to get it replying
> to the list. what _benifits_ do we gain by replying to the sender?
> it was sent to the list, it should be replyed to the list.
Some (most?) email clients do not provide any mechanism for replying
to the sender if the reply-to field has been munged. I guess that's
what it all comes down to. If the reply-to is set to the list, then
there is no way to actually send a message to the actual sender.
There is also a possibility of mail-looping. If someone on the list
has a vacation message set, it could trigger an infinite loop and kill
my mail server. That's what happened over Christmas when the list got
hammered. However, I have since learned how to trap for that.
Mail-looping isn't really an issue any more.
Seeing the volumn of subscribe and unsubscribe messages, it is true
that the list has had some turn-over. It is possible that the list
constituents would have a different preference now than before. The
last vote _was_ close.
*** Important Part ***
So, I will hold another vote and make changes accordingly. Send me
email to doug@lathi.net. Make the subject either 'set reply to list'
or 'set reply to sender'. The last vote did not produce many votes.
I think the total was less than %30 of the subscribers.
*** Important Part ***
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