[CoARES-D10] My apologies for replying to everyone on the list

Bob Proulx [email protected]
Mon, 22 Jul 2002 23:05:10 -0600


> My apologies for replying to everyone on the list

It is not your fault.  Several people (six so far) were tripped up by
the Reply-To: header on the list while trying to reply to Randy's
request for information.  And several I recognize as experienced
mailing list users.  This trips up users both experienced and new.

The list has Reply-To: set to the list.  Which is really, really bad
for mailing lists.  Six of you have experienced why.  Countless of us
experienced it vicariously through you.

> Reply-To: [email protected]

See this essay on the subject which does a better job of summarizing
the problem than I could.

  http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

If the list manager is listening, can that pesky header be removed?
It is only going to be a continuing source of trouble.

Bob
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