Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] I would like to know the answer as well?
From: Jerry Normandin (Jerry_Normandin@brown.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 09 1999 - 09:10:54 EST
Can we end this thread? I use this listserver to get information I need to tune
my Netatalk / DFS gatewway. I'll use this list as the maintaner set it up.
I guess Chad doesen't get what Open Software is all about.
"Chad S. Lauritsen" wrote:
> All didactic pontifications aside, I disagree. This is the only list I subscribe to that
> forces me to enter the list address when I press reply. I find that inconvenient and
> counter-intuitive, as I suspect do others on this list based on the fact that a request was
> made to send replies to the list, not just the poster.
>
> Rich Lafferty wrote:
>
> > Quoting Chad S. Lauritsen (csl@plconline.com) from Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:04:10PM -0600:
> > > That's the list's fault.
> >
> > No, it's not. A mailing list shouldn't *ever* add a Reply-To:; that's the
> > job of the sender of the message.
>
> What principle are you basing this on?
>
> >
> >
> > > Could whoever runs this list fix that by adding a reply-to: field in
> > > the message headers or something?
> >
> > No, you can fix it by using your mail agent to send your message to
> > wherever you want your message to go.
> >
> > (For what it's worth, the mail agent "mutt" has a feature which lets
> > you choose reply-to-sender, reply-to-all, or reply-to-mailing-list.
> > I suspect you could do a macro along those lines in most other mailers,
> > though.)
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > -Rich
> >
> > --
> > ------------------------------ Rich Lafferty ---------------------------
> > Sysadmin/Programmer, Information and Instructional Technology Services
> > Concordia University, Montreal, QC (514) 848-7625
> > ------------------------- rich@alcor.concordia.ca ----------------------
>
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