Re: Reply-To in Windtalk

From: Ken Poulton (poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Wed Oct 27 1999 - 17:57:21 PDT


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From: Ken Poulton <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>
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We've been through this discussion before, of course.

The conclusion then was that for a discussion list, setting the default
to reply-only-to-sender causes lots of messages intended for the list to
be essentially lost, and this would happen more than the misdirected
private replies we get now.

Ken wind_talk_meister Poulton
poulton@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis

"Now is the winter of our discontent" -- Richard III, Act I, Scene1, Line 1



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