Neil Schneider wrote:
> David Brown wrote:
> 
> > If you set a mailing list to munge Reply-To, you pretty much give up any
> > complaint you might have about people posting to the list.  A reply may be
> > off topic, and really should have just been sent to the original poster,
> > but the list didn't give them that choice.
> 
> Specious argument that's been beat to death on nearly every technical list on
> the internet. If you check the headers I sent this message to the list and to
> you privately. The mailing list didn't take any choice away, I simply had to
> be smarter than the email.

This mail comes from [EMAIL PROTECTED], because that is what I am
subscribed as. I set the reply to to som other email address. Can you
tell me what that is? Can you now figure out why or why not the choice
David referrrend to is gone?

What about those times when a conversation really should be on a
different list, and the poster sets the Reply-To accordingly?

> Funny this discussion never comes up on my bicycle list, or my family
> list, or any number of other lists I subscribe to that are not
> computer technology related.

Funny how we don't discuss the relative merits of Shimano Total
Integration, or the results of Fido's last vet appointment.

-john


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