From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28058 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2002 21:33:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 27918 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2002 21:33:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO StarGazer.TenForward.com) (65.161.10.3) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Feb 2002 21:33:12 -0000 Received: from tenforward.com (Server.tenforward.com [65.161.10.2]) by StarGazer.TenForward.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 75138CED5 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:33:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gregmo [208.238.204.47] by tenforward.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A995580E0142; Fri, 01 Feb 2002 13:33:09 -0800 Message-ID: <004001c1ab67$c2b04e40$0100a8c0@gregmo> From: "Greg Mosier" To: References: <4.3.1.2.20020201131341.01cb2718@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <4.3.1.2.20020201143046.01cb6770@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <4.3.1.2.20020201155426.01d12c28@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Subject: Re: Why not a news server? Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 13:33:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00054.txt.bz2 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)" 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@cygwin.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@cygwin.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). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/