JC Dill wrote:
> 2) While you complain about the effects using MS mail clients has on
> your mailing lists, I can equally complain about what I firmly believe
> is the antiquated and useless practice of setting up a DISCUSSION LIST
> with Reply-To to the author, and not the list. It leads to posts that
> are sent to dozens of individuals. Just as lazy MS mail client users
> start typing their reply where their client drops the cursor (at the
> top, resulting in top posting), lazy list users such as most people on
> this list select "reply to all" and then don't bother adjusting the ever
> increasing list of names that the reply goes to. Both types of users
> justify their actions by saying that since the software sets-up their
> reply this way, it must be OK. Well, I think it's pretty damn lazy to
> send a reply to the list, and to every other address that happens to be
> in the list headers, just because that's how the software most easily
> lets you reply back to the discussion list. And I really detest the
> duplicate messages this causes ME to receive. IMHO, this is worse than
> top-posting, with top-posting at least I only get one message.
It's the job of a decent MLM to deal with this. Mj2 can; all others should.
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