Earl Ruby writes: > I've read back through this thread, and forgive me if this has been > discussed before, but have you considered giving subscribers the > option of deciding for themselves whether their replies should go to > the list or to the poster?
No, I hadn't considered it, and upon consideration I would add it to the RFC only with a gun to my head (or equivalents such as demands from multiple list management software developers). The functionality you propose is *already available* to posters by setting Reply-To, and that method should be encouraged for posters who care because the poster already has the *per-message* knowledge of what is appropriate. I'm aware that many posters are in love with their Message-User-Agent- That-Sucks[tm] and don't have that functionality available to them by default. That is not a problem I can solve, and I'm not going to try to solve it in the RFC. A better way to solve it is to help Michael Trausch develop his all-things-to-all-men-and-even-women-and-children mail-cum-news-cum-webforum thingy, and hope it takes over the world. My advice, obviously, is that I don't think it will work as well as the existing software, but it wouldn't be the first time I've been very wrong, and I hope to live long enough to make many more mistakes. :-) If he's right, it would be a good thing to have, and I think that's the place to look before adding more functionality to the RFC. Mailman could in theory offer it anyway, but I suspect that without an RFC sanction Barry and Mark would shy away from it. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
