On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:43:40PM -0800, 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. 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.
BTW, unlike with my old configuration, I only saw a single copy of this
mail. In fact, I just started noticing this very nice feature of the cyrus
imapd. It keeps a 3-day database of message id's, and will avoid duplicate
delivery of messages in that timeframe.
I think that is one of the complains of people using 'reply-all' on lists,
since many mail systems don't eliminate the duplicates. Most of them only
elimiate the duplicate if it is delivered by the same sender, which won't
be the case with a mailing list.
Dave
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