Subject: Re: Cursor
From: Brian K. White (linut@squonk.net)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 12:20:27 CDT
Joaquín Cuenca Abela wrote:
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> sam th wrote:
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> > On Fri, 19 May 2000, [iso-8859-1] Joaquín Cuenca Abela wrote:
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> > > > /Mike - please reply to AbiWord-dev only
> > >
> > > Please, could anybody sets the reply-to of this list to the list itself?
> >
> > Please, read this before doing that.
> >
> > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
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> That page sucks.
>
> I've been in this list for almost 9 months, and I never (*NEVER*) sended
> an email with a reply to only the author of the original message.
> Instead, many times I've lost several messages when I wanted to reply to
> the list and accidentaly reply to the author (yeah, I have a Sent mail
> box, but it tooks too much work forwarding the message to the list, and
> yeah, I'm lazy). I'm tired of getting two times the same e-mail, and
> I'm tired of "reply-all", click in the to field, erase the original
> author from this field, change the Cc: field to a To: one, and send the
> mail (and that's when I remember to hit "reply-all" instead of "reply").
>
> I don't need any fundamental principe (like the author of that page
> suggest) for convince me that this method is what I need.
>
> For me, the actual state of the Reply-to just sucks.
>
> --
> Joaquín Cuenca Abela
> e-mail: cuenca@ie2.u-psud.fr
I agree. and this is not the only list set up like that. Administrators seem
to favor it as though it will reduce unecessary traffic, but I beleive it
doesn't reduce traffic the slightes bit, but merely makes everyone work a
lot harder and suffer increased frequency of mistakes to generate the exact
same traffic.
I never decided not to post a message to a list based on the reply-to. if I
believ the content will be interesting to anyone else then I go out of my
way to post to a list, if I believe the content is too specific or local to
be of any relevance to anyone besides me and the recipient, then I go out of
my way to be sure and send only to them directly.
it's stupid.
-- Brian K. White http://www.squonk.net/users/linut +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO Prosper/FACTS AutoCAD #callahans Satriani
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