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On Tue, 2 May 2000, Oliver Becker wrote: > > On occasions in the past I and other members of the list have urged that > > replies be only to the list unless requested. This saves a poster getting > > two identical replies to a message. > > > > Is this something that people still care about? > > Maybe the list software can be configured suchlike that it includes > (or replace a existing) "Reply-To:" in the mail header. > > Reply-To: xml-dev@x... Before actually doing this, read this essay on why it is such a bad idea. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html >From the introduction: <quote> Some administrators claim that Reply-To munging makes it easier for users to respond to the entire list, and helps encourage list traffic. These benefits are fallacious. Moreover, Reply-To can have harmful -- even dangerous -- effects. If you think Reply-To munging is a good idea, I hope I can change your mind. </quote> sam th sam@u... http://sam.rh.uchicago.edu *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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