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[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:17:22PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> I'll never set the Reply-To to go back to the list because (a) I think that
> posting a message to a few hundred people should require a bit of effort,
> and (b) I've seen far too many cases where mail went to a mailing list that
> was supposed to be a personal reply to the sender, and not for public
> consumption.
> 
> Chip Rosenthal covers all the bases here:
> 
> 	http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> 
> >I recall that you had a reaon for replies to be sent to the
> >originator by default and not back to the list, but I don't recall
> >what it was.   Many of the lists I subscribe to default to repling
> >to the list.
> 
> Just because many lists do it doesn't make it right.

A moment of silent prayer in thanks for sanity, please.

Cheers,
-- jra
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