Re: Reply To

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 16:37, Andi Scharfstein wrote:
> Hi,
> I am not convinced. I consider it a main feature of a mailing list
> to be able to communicate with a community of people with little
> effort. Actively trying to remember to change the address every time I
> reply to a posting is not what I think of as little effort, although
> people may disagree with me here. Anyway, I don't want to make a real
> argument here... instead, kindly check out
> http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml
> Thanks for listening.

Marc Merlin has written a good rebuttal to the page you listed at
http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/listreplyto.txt

I agree that the purpose of mailing lists is to facilitate communication
among a community.  As I see it, reply-to going to the list has several
drawbacks as outlined in that URL.

The debate will probably forever live on...

Jeremy

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