Comments:	Authenticated sender is <david AT diablo DOT eimages DOT co DOT uk>
From:	"David Cantrell" <david AT diablo DOT eimages DOT co DOT uk>
To:	rmh AT interlaced DOT net, opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 1997 11:31:18 +0000
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: [opendos] Reply-to fields
Reply-to:	david AT diablo DOT eimages DOT co DOT uk
References:	dg AT dcs DOT st-and DOT ac DOT uk's message of Mon, 17 Mar 97 18:26:36 +0000
In-reply-to:	<m3209ep5me.fsf@sorites.net>
Message-ID:	<1353351442-40209887@diablo.eimages.co.uk>

> Then how would you easily reply to *just* the author?  We should
> *discourage* replies to this list.   

If we don't reply to the mailing list, conversation would die, and 
would be replaced by just announcements.  If we had a newsgroup as 
well, that would be fine, but we don't.  If you want to reply to JUST 
the author, you can cut and paste the address into the To: field.  
This may inconvenience the senders of a very small number of 
messages, but most of us would rather send replies to the list.

> Can't you guys just hit followup instead of reply?

If you can show me the followup button on my mail client, I'll do 
just that.

> What sort of toy mail clients are you using?

Just the most fully-featured freely available newsreader available 
for Windows.  Not all of us use Gnus/emacs, which is a fine package 
but still lags years behind other software in terms of usability.

-- David Cantrell, http://www.eimages.co.uk/users/davidc/

The meek shall inherit the earth -
and the bold will go to the stars

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