2 Feb
2000
2 Feb
'00
7:02 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great liste(a)artware.qc.ca once stated (and will
get two copies of this):
On 03-Feb-00 Jay West wrote:
And the rebuttle: http://www.metasystema.org/reply-to-useful.mhtml
I personally like Reply-To: set to the mailing list. All the lists I'm on
are set up that way and there have been no problems that I could see (yes,
you see the occasional private message sent but it's not that big a
problem).
-spc (I get enough mail as it is ... I don't need duplicates 8-)
Several people wrote....
> I wonder if you would prefer if the "Respond To" portion should be:
>
> "classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org"
>
> as it used to???? (Well it used to be: "classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu")
> I know that sometimes caused a bit of a problem for posts that were
> supposed to be off list, but I think that is the more intended
> aspect?????
The best text on the subject i've seen is ``Reply-To'' Munging Considered
Harmful by Chip Rosenthal.
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html