Taking a poll on mail client reply

[David Nicol]

On 1/17/06, D. Joe <kclug at etrumeus.com> wrote:

> For example, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to send
> something to an -announce list while redirecting replies to an
> address to which non-subscribers (eg, newbies, installfest
> registrants, etc) can post without moderator intervention (like
> a newbie-handholding-volunteer with good spam filter, or an
> installfest coordinator, etc) Or to send email to the main list
> and redirect replies to an -executive list in which
> administrative garbage (like this thread) gets redirected.  And
> so on.

I send things to my announce list (very occasionally) by
editing the message, including headers, in vim, then
passing the message and the recipient list to my outbound
MTA, rather than trying to e-mail something to the announce
list, so for me these edge and corner cases of munging are
irrelevant, at least to the announcement use case.

This thread is not administrative garbage -- it is a lucid
discussion of current practice in a realm with multiple valid
approaches.  Most on-topic if you ask me.  Which nobody did.
Which didn't stop me.  That's me for you.



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David L Nicol
Charlotte sometimes dreams a wall
around herself