Dragaera

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

Peter H. Granzeau pgranzeau at cox.net
Fri Nov 29 16:54:01 PST 2002

At 14:23 11/29/2002 -0800, Damien Sullivan wrote:

> > (discussion-based lists), and with only one exception, they all have the
> > reply-to set to the individual poster, just like this list -- correctly, in
> > other words. :)  Do I just belong to unusual lists, or is this really not
> > the norm?  One list I've been on since 1993 has had it that way forever,
>
>In my own experience, such behavior is exceptional.  Most lists I'm familiar
>with set Reply-To to the list.  Of the two others which don't, one is a simple
>sendmail group alias -- there's no software to munge headers with, or
>subscribe with (owner does it all manually) and one (the Cherryh list) only
>comes out as a digest from the list owner.

I'm only on two other lists.

One, Dendarii-L (Lois Bujold) sets replies to the list.  It is very busy, 
frequently 200 mesages a day.

The other, Searoom-L, sets replies to the individual sender.  I have as 
much trouble there as I do here, but with far fewer messages.

One thing both of those lists do that this one might consider, is that a 
bracketed ID of the list is added to each subject line (after the "Re:" if 
there is one).  So I can filter for [LMB] or for [Searoom], and get them 
sorted out and lined up.  Maybe this list could add [SKZB] to the subject 
line, as I have done on this message.


-- 
Regards, Pete
pgranzeau at cox.net