On 4/30/2010 7:23 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
- Schwartz, Robert - IS<Robert.Schwartz@itt.com>:
Does anyone know a way to block a reply to all? I would like my users to not be able to reply to all to post a message. If the want to post a message, they should post it not just reply to a previous message.
Set the reply-to: to something wrong :)
Kinda defeats the purpose of replying at all.
Robert- Why?? Most mailing lists are a conversation (of sorts). You say one thing and I say something relevant to that (like this). Almost all messaging happens like that (email, web fora, chat systems, SMS, etc). Do you want to prevent two-way conversation, force every message to me a "new" message, or what?
Also, reply-all is a MUA function, not an MTA function, so changing the behavior of Mailman is kind of a band-aid solution.
(That aside, you could look at the subject for a "Re:" or similar tag, but that's not reliable. You could look for mailman's X-BeenThere or X-Mailman-Version headers, which would be better... OTOH, these will prevent -all- replies that go to the list, not just reply-all.)
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