Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "David Cantrell" 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 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 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: 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