Re: Why can't you guys not even properly run a mailing list?

[Christopher Biggs <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jaap van Ganswijk <ganswijk@xs4all.nl> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> Hi,
> 
> I just got some personal answers to reactions I thought I had posted
> to the list, but a short examination showed that I had walked in the
> old trap again of just clicking the reply button without changing the
> to-address, that this brain-dead mailing list still requires.

Not everybody likes "reply goes to list by default".  I can't speak
for the list administrator, but I happen to think it sucks.

Munging the reply-to to point to the list breaks the ability to
*choose* whether to reply to sender or to list.  In that case 
there's no way to reply to just the sender, short of manually pasting
in their address.

On a proper mailer, you have two reply commands --- reply to sender,
reply to all recipients.   

See also http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html 

What would be cool, is if a listserver let each subscriber control how
their messages are munged...

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