On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:56:50PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Earl Ruby writes:
I've read back through this thread, and forgive me if this has been discussed before, but have you considered giving subscribers the option of deciding for themselves whether their replies should go to the list or to the poster?
No, I hadn't considered it, and upon consideration I would add it to the RFC only with a gun to my head (or equivalents such as demands from multiple list management software developers).
The functionality you propose is *already available* to posters by setting Reply-To, and that method should be encouraged for posters who care because the poster already has the *per-message* knowledge of what is appropriate.
+1.
Or, indeed, setting (reply) hooks (or equivalents) in the mail-directory for lists mails -- where clients support that -- if people are so inclined.
(I remember making Thunderbird or Outlook do that when I used one, or both of them, in $DAYJOB-x, so that sort of behaviour *is* possible.)
I'm of the view that if mail's good enough to go to the list, the reply ought to go there, too, with the exception of annoucement-only type lists.
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