Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:09:05 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Cliff Crawford <ze5yr@zone.unixshell.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net>, gmarco@scotty.masternet.it, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: freebsdcon and Radisson Hotel Reservation. Message-ID: <19990914200905.B56201@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909141111400.41770-100000@zone.unixshell.com>; from Cliff Crawford on Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:13:10AM -0400 References: <xzp7lltzho5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909141111400.41770-100000@zone.unixshell.com>
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On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:13:10AM -0400, Cliff Crawford wrote:
> On 14 Sep 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>
> | "Reply-To" in connection with mailing lists has been discussed to
> | death in various fora. It's a semi-religious issue, though it is my
> | impression that most people who have actual experience managing
> | mailing lists ("actual experience" as opposed to "strong opinions
> | based on what one thinks managing a large mailing list may be like")
> | are against it. That includes me.
>
> Oh, well that explains it then--I've only run *small* mailing lists (~10
> members) and I love Reply-to. :)
It depends on your subscribers, and on the nature of the list. I run
several mailing lists, some large, some small.
Most of the subscribers get used to the lack of Reply-To on the list quite
quickly, and actually find it useful (many of them subscribe from one
address, post to the list from several, and want to be able to redirect
personal replies to an address different from the posted one).
The only list which has 'Reply-To' set is the announce list, where any and
all replies are redirected to a chat list. Annoyingly, this causes the
biggest problems, as people will reply to the announcement with a personal
e-mail, and (despite the automatically prepended sig warning that replies
will automatically go to the chat list unless they override it) you still
get the occasional personal message going to the chat list by mistake.
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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