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Re: [SLE] [OT] Proposed SuSE List Etiquette
- From: ken <gebser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:55:45 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <44E1E042.2070508@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
William Gallafent wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 August 2006 01:02, jdow wrote:
>
>> You send one note to the list. The LIST sends out several
>> copies of your note. Generally the list benefits if
>> answers go to the list rather than to the original
>> sender. Therefore I feel the DEFAULT action should be to
>> email the list with extra action required to move into
>> private email. Otherwise, why bother to have a list?
>
> ....
>
> Lucky the list doesn't alter the Reply-To header, or I
> wouldn't have been able to divert this conversation to the
> off-topic list (to which I do not subscribe ;)
So it's okay for someone to put in a Reply-To of, say,
ogre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and this listserver will diligently pass that
through to all of us, so that anyone not carefully watching the headers
might send an email there. Nice feature!
> On Tuesday 15 August 2006 01:02, jdow wrote:
>
>> You send one note to the list. The LIST sends out several
>> copies of your note. Generally the list benefits if
>> answers go to the list rather than to the original
>> sender. Therefore I feel the DEFAULT action should be to
>> email the list with extra action required to move into
>> private email. Otherwise, why bother to have a list?
>
> ....
>
> Lucky the list doesn't alter the Reply-To header, or I
> wouldn't have been able to divert this conversation to the
> off-topic list (to which I do not subscribe ;)
So it's okay for someone to put in a Reply-To of, say,
ogre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and this listserver will diligently pass that
through to all of us, so that anyone not carefully watching the headers
might send an email there. Nice feature!
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