Approved: phsun,dial
Dear subscribers of the sundial mailing list,
some time ago I changed the 'Reply-To'-field in the header of the e-mails
reflected by the majordomo mailing list software to the address
[EMAIL PROTECTED] For more than five years the 'Reply-To'-field
was set to the address of the sender. Over the past years several people
from the list asked me to change this field to the address
[EMAIL PROTECTED] This change initiated several long threads
about advantages and disadvantages of this feature. I proposed to ask for
a democratic decision some weeks later when everyone on the list had the
possibility to get used to this.
"Old style" Reply-To: <address of
sender>
Pros:
- private answers will not accidentally go to all subscribers
- no need to manually remove the address sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de from
the list of addressees if an answer is intended for one or few persons
only
Cons:
- an unknown number of interesting answers and contributions will
only go to the one who sent the question
- to include the list community one has to manually add
sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de to the addressees
"Current style" Reply-To:
sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Pros:
- the subscribers might not be excluded from interesting answers and
contributions
- there is no need to manually add sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de to the
addressees
Cons:
- accidentally mails intended for one person only will be read by the
hundreds of subscribers
- no automatic responses will be sent to the subscribers
The intention of this mail is not to initiate another long discussion
thread. If possible from your point of view, please just vote! It's up to
you to evaluate the pros and cons of the contrary styles.
You have one vote! Please send it until Saturday, 27th of April 2002
(12:00 pm CEDT).
Please switch back to
the old style!
Please keep the
current style!
Abstention
from voting
If your mailing program doesn't format HTML:
Please switch back to the old style: Send an e-mail with the subject
'old' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please keep the current style: Send an e-mail with the subject 'current'
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Abstention: Send an e-mail with the subject 'abstention' to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you for the thousands of contributions to this list I founded in
1996 - I'm impressed by all the knowledge and expertise that you have in
gnomonics and other fields and that you share it on "my" and
our list!
Best regards -
- Daniel Roth, sundial mailing list
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