I agree with both of you.
Like Dirk I would prefer that the list puts the sender's email address
in the "reply to:" field, to prevent unwanted replies to the whole
list where only a private answer is intended. But if I remember well,
this was impossible for the list software... (like with the
un*subsc*ribe issue...)
Like Volkart I use the delete button for everything unwanted (almost
everything, these days). I can afford receiving and deleting this way,
because I have unlimited access to the internet - but for people who
have to pay per minute for their connection it is quite different.
I have put "subject: [OM][OT]" in my killfilter, but it doesn't help
against messages from people who forget to use [OT] or, like with this
message, who put something between [OM] and [OT] ;-)
Although I would hate having to do so, I am afraid that I will have to
un*subscribe in the near future, if the weak Olympus-related signal
does not win over the strong automotive, ballistic and US political
noise...
I am even considering to open a separate and more 'globally' oriented
channel, where non-Olympus-related traffic would simply be prohibited.
Frank van Lindert
Utrecht NL.
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:09:24 +0200, Volkhart Baumgaertner
<kyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Yo,
>
>on Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:29:29 +0000, Dirk Wright wrote:
>
>>Giles, I suggest that the list software be changed so that the "reply to:"
>>field is the email address of the person sending the message rather than the
>>whole list. I think this would cut down on list traffic.
>
>Yes, but it would also cut down on postings of common interest. Frequently,
>on a few mailing lists that handle it the way you suggest, I see a question
>posted and think "Gee, that's interesting, gotta look out for the replies",
>but no replies ever make it to the list. Now, of course it's possible that
>there simply were no replies, but I'm pretty sure that more often the
>replies just were never sent to the list because the person replying just
>hit the reply-button without thinking about how the reply-to in the original
>message was set. Lots of valuable information are lost to the majority of
>the list members this way. I therefore prefer that the OM-List be kept the
>way it is; I have a delete-button for stuff that I don't want.
>
>
>MtFbwy,
>Volkhart
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