Re: Reply button - why not cc: the list?

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Torsten Schlabach wrote:
>
>> I think that even with two buttons you'd make casual surfers (people
>> referred from Google, say) believe they can reply to the list when they
>> can't.
>
> Can't they? The archive is subscribed to the list. So the archive would be
> able to send messages to the list on behalf of the user, wouldn't it?
>

I never thought of that. But as a list owner, I'm not sure I'd want people 
being able to send messages to the list that way. It would defeat the 
subscription mechanism, and allow anyone (including spammers) to send 
anonymous messages.

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