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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 22:44:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: suggestion -- mailer replies should go to Cygwin list
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:

> David Christensen wrote:
> >
> > Suggestion -- When a user selects a message sent to the Cygwin mailing
> > in their mailer and activates the mailer "Reply" feature, the reply
> > should be addressed to the Cygwin list, not the original poster.
>
> This has been brought up many times, search the archives.  It's not
> going to happen.  For the reasoning why this is so, read
> <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>.

Well, yes, it won't happen when posting to <cygwin at cygwin dot com>.
However, there's <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00652.html> (or,
actually, <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-01/msg01203.html> has a more
readable summary).
HTH,
	Igor
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