From xod@sixgirls.org Fri Feb 02 14:03:31 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@erika.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 2 Feb 2001 22:03:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 50427 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2001 21:56:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Feb 2001 21:56:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO erika.sixgirls.org) (209.208.150.50) by mta2 with SMTP; 2 Feb 2001 21:56:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by erika.sixgirls.org (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f12LuQ819379 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:56:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:56:25 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Reply, to whom? In-Reply-To: <3A7B26F5.6010709@reutershealth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, John Cowan wrote: > Olivia wrote: > > > a good way to alleviate this problem would be for the moderator to > > change the reply-to attribute of the list's posting settings to > > "All (replies go to all members of this group)"..... > > For why we don't do that, please read "Reply-To Munging > Considered Harmful" at http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html The way you have this list set up, pine offers two options: to reply to the sender only, or to reply to everybody. "Everybody" means BOTH the original poster, and the list. This is the option that people appear to be using, even if they are not using pine. I personally select this option and then tediously erase the original poster's address, and cut-n-paste the group address out of the cc: field into the to: field. It seems that few others can be bothered. The author mendaciously implies triviality by omitting the fact that this extra step must be taken. He says: "Any reasonable, modern mailer provides this feature. I prefer the Elm mailer. It has separate ``r)eply'' and ``g)roup-reply'' commands. If I want to reply to the author of a message, I strike the ``r'' key. If I want to send a reply to the entire list, I hit ``g'' instead. Piece 'o cake." Yeah, right. Only if your idea of a mailing list is a "cc:" list. ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!