regarding the reply address on the list....

> 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????? > I've had a fair amount of experience using (and setting up and running) > quite a few mailing lists. The way they were always set up was the user sent > to the list, and the list sent the mail back to all the subscribers with the > reply address being the user who sent the post originally. In this manner if > you hit the REPLY button to a post, your message goes to the person who sent > the post, not the list. If you hit the REPLY ALL button, then your response > went to the list AND the original poster. This is how 99.9% of all the lists > I've ever seen are configured.

Actually, I've been investigating that, and that is _not_ what happens, at least not with my mailer.

I am on a number of mailing lists. The ones which have Reply-to: pointing to the sender seem to have _very_ little discussion on them. Most people just send replies to the sender rather than to the list. The original poster gets a number of replies giving essentially the same information, since nobody can know that other people have already replied.

On the other hand, the lists that have Reply-to: pointing to the list almost always have a lot of discussion on them.

Posting to the list (and I've only done it twice) has _already_ become a pain for me. I guess I'll stay here, but while I have to fool around editing headers (or worse, editing files in my mail queue because I've forgotten to edit the headers), I'll not post anything like as much as I used to. Some of you might think that's a Good Thing, though ;-).