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From: "Greg Mosier" <Greg DOT Mosier AT USA DOT Net>
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Subject: Re: Why not a news server?
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:31:06 -0800
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Yeah, I've too noticed this inconvience of having to use reply all to get it
to go back to the list.  The most frustrating thing about this is that this
is a setting in the listserv software, whether it be elzm, mailman,
majordomo, or listserv.  The person that has set this up has configured it
so that the default reply to address is that of the send instead of the
list.  A simple change in the configuration would alleviate that and would
likely increase participation on the list.  As an example, let's say Joe has
a problem but I have no clue what his resolution might be.  However, John
replies to it and suggests something to Joe.  John's suggestion isn't the
solution, but it sparks recollection in the minds of others as the what the
resolution indeed is.  Now, if John's reply never makes it to the list then
you lose that possibility.  Then, when someone has something to say to
someone that is off topic they can switch the email addresses quite easily.

Cheers,
Greg Mosier

From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Why not a news server?


> >And again, currently this is not very convenient. For example, Larry here
emailed me directly at my work email address about this topic. I hit reply
and replied to him. But our discussion did not go to the Cygwin mail list. I
noticed, just as it was too late, that I forgot to add on the
cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, so you all didn't get that first response. Then Larry
emails me again, continuing our discussion of this issue. This time I
remembered. As I said email is not conducive to discussions, which is why
news and news servers exist no? Also, as has been stated, it's a big waste
of bandwidth and space to send everybody a copy of the thread, especially
since rarely is anybody interested in all of it.
>
>
> Actually, I think the problem was at your end.  I replied to all so my
> response (originally) went to the list (and you).  You probably got two
> responses.  When you replied, you didn't reply to all, so only I got the
> response.  Unlike allot of other frequent responders to the list, I don't
> reset my 'Reply-To' field to point to cygwin AT cygwin DOT com when I respond.
> It's just a choice.  I don't object to anyone doing this (or not).  I also
> don't generally redirect email that folks send directly to me back to the
> list.  Again, I have no problem with folks doing that.  I just don't
> generally myself (for reasons that aren't really germane to this thread).



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