Mailing list administration question

Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent) Jarvisb at timken.com
Fri Aug 24 21:04:43 UTC 2001


> From: cg at cdegroot.com [mailto:cg at cdegroot.com]
> Stephen Pair <spair at advantive.com> said:
> >Cees, could you consider not having Mailman modify the sender (or
> >reply-to) headers?  I agree with the points made in the link 
> in Bert's
> >email...
> >
> Consider, yes, but we'd need to reach some form of consensus. Since I
> was a Fidonet sysop in the '80s I've been seeing this discussion again
> and again. My stance is that I'll do whatever the group at hand thinks
> is best. I think it is more politics/sociology than 'X 
> considered harmful'.
> 
> Question two: how to reach consensus about this?

I like having the mailing list address in the reply-to.  I find that in
general when a message comes to me via the list I want to reply to the list
and not to the original sender.  Only very rarely do I want to reply only to
the original sender.  YMMV.

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken




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