> Brad Knowles wrote: > Correct. The Mailman developers feel that forcing all > replies to go back to the list causes much more harm than > good.
For a real-world example: We run several thousand lists here at our university (not all in Mailman) and we had a class list set up with "replies go to list" (the professor/owner had inadvertantly changed that setting from the default). One night, the professor sent out a message to the class list, giving them some instructions or something. Well one student on the list didn't realize this and thought the prof had sent the message only to her, basically targetting her (I guess she didn't look at the headers). She replied with a pretty personal message back to the prof, and it went to the entire class (180 students). She was so embarrassed and humiliated the next day to know that entire class had read her personal message and were talking about her, that she dropped the class. This is basically why you want people to specifically address the list, if they mean to send to it. Sure it was her fault, but it's wiser to use the "strongly recommended" defaults than to try to teach a revolving group of 15,000 students an email lesson. - jim - ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9