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Re: List software?
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 3 Apr 2001 08:38:29 GMT
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Andy Gombos <gombos_2000@yahooSPAMLESS.com>
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I think that people think it is a pain in the a$$, as there has been a post on this
before, but it has been this way for a long time, and people are used to having to
delete senders.
I am not saying that I like to do this (I don't), but that people may not want to
change. A poll similar to the age poll may be in order.
Andy
Chris 'Xenon' Hanson wrote:
> Russell Nelson wrote:
>
> > Andy Gombos writes:
> > > So what software does this? If it is so common to have in an
> > > e-mail program, then which do it?
> > I know of no email software with a "Reply to Recipient" command --
> > *THAT* is the problem.
> > Yes, I'm opinionated about this. You should be too. Or is it
> > unimportant to be able to reply to someone without accidentally
> > sending your reply to everyone?
>
> I didn't mean to start such a firestorm about this.
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> I suspect, reality being lazy, that it's easier to fix
> a 'problem' like this in one place (the centralized
> mailing-list software) and not in a great multitude of
> places (everyone's varied mail clients).
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> I would happily volunteer to try to make list software
> modifications, as I have had to do this before.
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> (Not to add fuel to the fire, but another peeve is mailing
> lists that don't strip enough identifying info from outgoing
> messages, and replace it with their own. As a result, any
> errors or annoying "out-of-office" replies get sent to the
> message author (who can't do anything about it), not to a
> mailing-list admin address (who hopefully can do something
> about it).
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> As I said before, I'm not just whining, I'm happy to try to
> help, if the consensus is that it should work this way. If folks
> prefer the way it works now, I'll just keep quiet.
>
> Chris - Xenon
> --
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| (...) I didn't mean to start such a firestorm about this. I suspect, reality being lazy, that it's easier to fix a 'problem' like this in one place (the centralized mailing-list software) and not in a great multitude of places (everyone's varied (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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