On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 11:21:47AM -0800, "Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk@QueerNet.ORG> wrote:
> On 29 Nov 1998, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >>>>> "BR" == Brock Rozen <brozen@torah.org> writes:
> >
> > BR> Jason, IMHO, the list-owner should also have the bottom-line when it
> > BR> comes to 'prefix' and 'replyto'.
> >
> > They can never have that. I can run Procmail locally to take out the
> > stupid prefixes and reply-to: headers if I want. I can put them in using
> > Procmail, too.
> >
> > Eventually I will implement something which restricts the flags that users
> > are allowed to mess with. This isn't exactly high priority, though, since
> > I don't really understand why you'd want to restrict choice like that.
>
> Simple: not all lists are like yours.
>
> Some lists may have a RULE, a POLICY, that all responses must go to
> everyone. Others may REQUIRE that replies go only to the sender. (I
> would hate, for instance, to see what sun-managers would look like if many
> posters chose reply-to-list; this would be a great tool for those
> list-owners.)
Would it be possible to have a list-level variable that toggled the whole set
of user-level options on and off, with a strong warning in the docs that this
shouldn't be used unless you know what you're doing?
Speaking for myself, I agree with Jason - the end user can munge the message
any way they want from the time it hits their mail server. I suspect that
having a good set of defaults on a list would go a long way towards getting
the results you're looking for.
But, on the other hand, some people like to be a BListOwnerFH. <shrug>
Bryan
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