Re: The way this discussion list is configured

On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:16 AM, Beth Katz wrote:

> On Sep 7, 2006, at 2:40 AM, Patrick James wrote:
>>> Yes. Many high-traffic lists are configured in the same way. I think
>>> this list can change the Reply-To field to <[email protected]>
>>> as it is not so much high-traffic ;-)
>
> This isn't high traffic now because there's the OmniGroup forum
> for discussing such things:
>    http://forums.omnigroup.com/index.php
>
> But the current list arrangement forces you to think about whether
> you want to send your reply to everyone.

This topic comes up every so often. It's called "reply-to munging."  
It's considered a bad thing. I googled and found this site:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html I didn't read all of  
it but at first glance it seems to give a good explanation why not to  
do reply-to munging.

-Forrest