begin quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:03:02PM -0800: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > > > > Yes I read that line, and can imagine arguing that the mail list _is_ > > the author of the re-distributed message (admittedly a stretch). > > A mailing list is no more an author than is McGraw Hill publishing.
Note that if you wish to contact the author of a book published by McGraw Hill, and the author hasn't put his contact information into the text, you go through McGraw Hill. Not munging reply-to makes sense for an announcement-based list, the sort of thing that you'd use for publishing event notices, product releases, general announcements, invitations, etc. In short, lists where "conversation" is not important, needed, or desired. I suppose for very-high-traffic list with a lot of readers and only a few posters (a developer's list, perhaps, and a lot of interested users and hangers-on), it would also work okay. Personally, when I (r)eply, I expect it to go to the list. I get suprised when this is not the case. -- Utility trumps aesthetics. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
