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Subject: Re: Default Reply-To Mailing List versus Sender....
From: Michael Yount <csf @ moscow . com>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:29:49 -0700
To: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <39053F3F.292B6CE7@netscape.com>; from dliston@netscape.com on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 01:46:23AM -0500
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IMO one of the best things Jason has done with Mj2 is to facilitate
an end to the debate over the reply-to and subject-prefix issues.
List participants can choose individually whether or not they
would like reply-to-list or the subject prefix, if a list
is configured to support them.

Michael

On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 01:46:23AM -0500, Dan Liston wrote:
> Hi Anthony,
> 
> I am sure you will find two camps on the subject here too.  I walk the fence
> with
> some of my lists configured one way, and the rest the other way.  Since all
> mailer
> tools seem to offer "reply all" or it's equivalent, it is a matter of
> subscriber
> education to get them to use that button when reply_to = $SENDER.  On the
> other
> hand, when you have a discussion that you want all comments to be public on
> the
> subject and make it difficult to reply privately to the sender, reply_to =
> $LIST
> is the logical choice.  Saying one is better or correct and the other is not
> as
> good or wrong is like saying chocolate shakes are better than strawberry. 
> There
> is no right answer, it is a matter of preference.  Sometimes it is the owner
> of
> the list setting the preference, sometimes it is the majority rule of the
> list
> subscribers.
> 
> Dan Liston
> 


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