Hello Carl Zwanzig. On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:45:13 -0700, you wrote:
On 3/27/2018 9:52 AM, Christian F Buser via Mailman-Users wrote:
Hello David Elliott. On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:51:40 +0200, you wrote:
One of the recipients recently did a 'reply to all' and consequently sent his reply to the whole mailing list. I'm sure there must be a way to prevent this but I can't find it!
Set all members to "moderated", with the exception or those who may post to the list.
Seems a bit harsh. Question is how you want the list to behave- to facilitate discussion or simply to make announcements. If the latter is preferred, then yes, setting all members to moderated will prevent them from posting.
If a "reply ro all" results in a message post to the list (which is normal) and the list owner says this is unwanted - then I think it should behave as an announcement list only. Otherwise, the message post should be acceptable.
There is probably no easy way to distinguish between wanted / unwanted messages, if it is a discussion list.
OTOH, if the list's purpose is discussion, moderating all members becomes a bottleneck.
Of course, moderating too many users in a discussion list is a bad idea anyway.
In that case, user training is often the best route; explaining when it's appropriate to send to the list and when it's not. And there will -always- be errors. (Scholars differ on whether the default action should be reply-to-list or reply-to-sender and there's nothing to be gained by trying to resolve that here.)
On a discussion list, I would set default reply- to-list.
Christian
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