Dragaera

Straw Poll about "Reply-to" (was: Damiano's Lute)

Thu Nov 28 23:25:25 PST 2002

> Well, it won't necessarily convince anyone, but let's have a little
poll:
>
> 1. Have you accidentally sent a private reply instead of posting to
>    the list?

Yes. Nearly did it with this one :-)

> 1'. Have you accidentally posted to the list instead of sending a
>     private reply?

No

> 2. Have you received an accidental private reply that was meant to
go
>    to the list?

Yes

> 3. When you get a message that was sent to you instead of the list,
do
>    you feel obliged to query the sender to ask him or her if it was
>    meant to private instead of to the list?

Didn't realise it at first.

> 4. Has the Reply-To behavior of this list caused you confusion when
>    posting to other mailing lists, perhaps even causing you to
>    accidentally send a private e-mail instead of posting or vice
>    versa?

No. Given that all the other lists I subscribe to have the list email
as the 'from' and also put the list name in the subject header.

> 5. How do you feel about the Reply-To behavior of this list?
>    Do you
>    + dislike it
>    + hate it

Paul
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