-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2006-03-27 at 12:54 -0500, ken wrote:
A second, derivative point (pertaining to instructions and documentation on this issue): Isn't it silly to configure the list server so that replies go to the poster and then ask each and every user to run through special instructions and documentation, then change to a different email client and/or change how their client works just to defeat that list configuration?
Not really. Just because a majority (not in linux mail servers, by the way) do it the other way, doesn't make it right :-P Think. An example. Somebody on this list, goes on vacation and set up an autoresponder (I'll be out of the office till...). The list keeps sending him his email, his autoresponder will respond to the list, the list will forward that to him again... we get an endless loop, thousands of emails sent to everybody. But, as there is no reply-to, that will not happen here.
(List users don't have to read special documentation or change their email client or change its behavior. It just works.)
It "just works" with properly designed programs that are list aware and follow the standard, like kmail. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEKDTxtTMYHG2NR9URAgibAJ9pggvq5qtX/9QVuVmy4qBGsC52CwCeLnG4 ooJieW80GjWHLVHSWNkevoE= =54GW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----