On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 02:23:43PM -0700, Tim Spofford wrote:
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
> http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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> At 01:15 PM 09/12/1999 -0700, you wrote:
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> >I still don't think it's a problem, and would like to know what is so bad
> >about the originator getting 2 copies of a reply.
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> It's only a problem for me when the list owner asks us to do something
> that's inconsistent with the way the listserv is configured. I've been on
> here a couple of years and haven't said a word about it until now. I've
> been moderating or maintaining lists or list-like discussions since 1988
> (one list now, 4 or 5 fidonet echos in the past) and between work and home
> I subscribe to six lists currently. I've never before encountered one
> that worked this way.
I'm not sure how this list is configured -- it works fine for me.
However, there are good technical reasons not to munge the reply-to:
headers, and for those of you with enough geek blood in your veins,
check the following URL.
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> I'm done. I raised the issue. I don't care if it's changed or not. I'll
> keep doing what I've been doing which, in most cases and unintentionally,
> results in my replies going to the sender of the original and not to the
> list. Clearly it's not a problem for others so I'm not going to let it be
> for me.
I don't care if it is changed or not, either, but I would rather not
get any more spam than necessary...
-- Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be kent@songbird.com lonesome." -- Mark Twain