On 1 Dec 2002 at 20:14, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Okay, this exchange is a perfect illustration of the problem with the > current mailing list reply-to settings. > > On 2002/12/01 06:15 PM or thereabouts, David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > intoned: > > > On 1 Dec 2002 at 17:11, Éric Dussault wrote: > > > >> le 11/30/02 5:03 PM, David W. Fenton à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > >> > >>> I was told when I upgraded that, basically the "act before" stuff is > >>> basically for the special offers -- the coffee cup, the t-shirt, the > >>> videotape -- and the actual price never changes. > > David's post was on-list. > > >> No. I've bought my FinMac 2003 upgrade the day it was announced (actually > >> 89.95$) and got no t-shirt or whatever it was. > > Eric's post was offlist, a private email to David. I have no idea whether > he intended it to go to the list and forgot to hit "reply to all," or > whether this was actually intended as private mail. And there's no way for > David to know, either, unless he specifically asks Eric about his intent.
Well, I always assume that private replies not accompanied by an on- list reply are intended to be private. In this case my incoming mail filters did not perform the way they normally do, so I didn't notice it wasn't to the list. > > Well, I didn't say there was *always* a special offer. I only > > reported what Coda told *me* when I missed a deadline because their > > website was too messed up to take my order online before the > > deadline. > > > > I couldn't give a rat's ass about t-shirts or coffee cups, to be > > honest. > > David's reply is on-list, quoting the private email. So either he > inadvertently breached etiquette by quoting someone else's private email > on-list, or he actually did Eric a favor by quoting material that was always > intended for the list. > > This is a mess. > > Again, since I'm told it's is a piece of cake to change the default > "reply-to" behavior, can our esteemed list owner PLEASE consider at least > allowing us to vote on whether the change should be made. I didn't know the post was off-list because my mail filters work on the [FINALE] text in the subject. I prefer this even for private replies because it keeps all the relevant topics in one of my inboxes. Generally, though, my filters kick in with the messages addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] getting sorted to my main inbox first, and [FINALE] posts getting picked up later. I don't know why that didn't happen in this case. But, I certainly agree that the correct setting for a mailing list of this nature is to have the REPLY-TO be set to the mailing list address. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
