Re: Mailing List - How it works and why!!

From: Adrian Smith (A.Smith@centenary.usyd.edu.AU)
Date: Mon Mar 19 2001 - 18:59:39 EST


>
>C<bigger>olleagues:
>
>We have had many requests over the years to change this and that
>- particularly that!! If you hit REPLY to a message from the list, you
>will only  send the message to the individual who posed the
>question. This is intentional on our part. Everyone on the list knows
>how to send a message to the list and we do not publish anywhere
>how to do that. This is also intentional. When you want your
>message to go to the list, it should be by intention, not by
>accident. On the most part, we have rescued from public
>embarrassment the accidental personal messages that were sent
>to the list. Remember, you get a clean list because this is a
>monitored list - we review messages and remove the trash mail that
>squeak in...


The other "advantage" of having the reply set to the sender is that
the sender (and not the list) gets all the "out of office"
auto-replies and address failures. Annoying for the sender but saves
everyone getting annoyed (or the list manager having to deal with it).

Adrian



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