Re: Who are these folks?
Re: Who are these folks?
- Subject: Re: Who are these folks?
- From: email@hidden (Michael Sullivan)
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 23:11:11 -0400
- Organization: Society for the Incurably Pompous
Paul Berkowitz writes:
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The mailing list forwards our messages on to all the list recipients. Don't
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forget that the AS-Users list, unusually among mailing lists, replies by
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default to the real sender, not to the mailing list.
Not that unusual for technical lists, although I think this choice is a
mistake for any list whose charter doesn't discourage discussion.
On Mac-mgrs, it's very appropriate. Here, I don't like it, but Chuq
(and probably others) prefers mail to distribution, so this is the apple
way.
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You'll only get these if you write to the list, of course. I'm glad for once
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that AS-Users works this way - otherwise the list - all of us -would get
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two of these for every singe message (or digests) these guys receive.
No we wouldn't. I'm on lots of mailing lists that use the list as
Reply-To: and these don't happen. The reason is that messages from
mailer-daemon's are easily trapped by the list-server and either binned
or sent to the list owner. Only someone running a daemon with a very
non-standard interface would have their bounces make it to a list run by
real list software (as opposed to a simple alias reflector script)
Michael