Re: Reply-To in Windtalk

From: Alain Dumesny (alain@macromedia.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Fri Oct 29 1999 - 11:49:45 PDT


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From: Alain Dumesny <alain@macromedia.com-DeleteThis>
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Ken Poulton wrote:
>
> We've been through this discussion before, of course.
>
> The conclusion then was that for a discussion list, setting the default
> to reply-only-to-sender causes lots of messages intended for the list to
> be essentially lost, and this would happen more than the misdirected
> private replies we get now.

I agree. you definitely want to see other people's reply... that's the point
of the list. If people send messages that are a waste of time for others
(there are always some) then maybe they shouldn't be sent in the first
place...

IMO this groups has much higher info to noise ratio than most other groups
I've seen. Keep it flowing..

>
> Ken wind_talk_meister Poulton
> poulton@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis
>
> "Now is the winter of our discontent" -- Richard III, Act I, Scene1, Line 1

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