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Subject: Default reply behavior is counterintuitive
From: Patrick Wiseman <lawppw @ gsulaw . gsu . edu>
Organization: GSU College of Law
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:25:06 -0500
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com

Hello:

It seems to me -- and to my listowners -- that majordomo's default reply 
behavior (to the sender rather than the list) is counterintuitive for a 
discussion list, where it is expected that replies will be contributions 
to the discussion.

Is there a way to change this default behavior in (in order of my 
preference):

* the sendmail aliases
* the majordomo script
* each list's config file?

Someone commented recently that most email programs have a "follow-up" 
function.  I use pine when in UN*X, and Eudora, Pegasus, and Netscape in 
other environments, none of which has a "follow-up" function and only one 
of which (Pegasus, which is wonderful in many other ways as well) gives 
me the kind of control necessary over where replies go.  I want it to be 
*very easy* for people to reply to the list, and not too hard for them to 
reply to the sender when that's appropriate.  At the moment, it's exactly 
the opposite: hard to reply to the list without also replying to the 
sender (which is redundant given that the sender's on the list), and too 
easy to reply only to the sender.

Cheerio
Patrick


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