Re: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current handler name in a string variable)
Re: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current handler name in a string variable)
- Subject: Re: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current handler name in a string variable)
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 08:34:33 -0800
On 12/28/01 8:07 AM, "Sander Tekelenburg" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At 12:17 +0100 UTC, on 28-12-2001, Emmanuel did as Joe Kelly,
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"'billp'", and so many others on this list do:
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> To: Joe Kelly <email@hidden>,
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> "'billp'" <email@hidden>,
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> Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>,
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> AppleScript Users list <email@hidden>
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Could you all please stop sending your message to every address that
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the previous poster just happened to add? I'm getting tired of
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needlessly receiving duplicates of many of this list's messages.
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We all subscribe. Just reply to the list and we'll receive it. (If your
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mailclient cannot do this easily, then upgrade it or live with its
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unease. Don't make it other people's problem.)
I think that this must all come back to the fact that this mailing list's
behavior replies to the sender by default. Very peculiar, but that's how
they do it. So the "easy" way for people with more primitive email programs
to remember to reply to the list must be by doing a Reply to All.
Just in case some people don't know this, there are some email programs,
including at least one free one (and one particularly nice one which isn't
free), which can override a list's behavior and do it "the other way". So
you can have all your mailing lists set to reply to the list and never have
to think about it, nor annoy Sander. I can let you know which these are if
you're interested and can't guess.
--
Paul Berkowitz