[H-GEN] A request to the list maintainers

Tony Nugent tony at linuxworks.com.au
Thu Feb 13 20:42:06 EST 2003


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On Fri Feb 14 2003 at 11:17, Stuart Longland wrote:

> Here's an idea...Could it be set up to make the Reply-To field set to
> the list AND the poster?  ie, for this email:
> 
> Reply-to: general at lists.humbug.org.au, stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org

ohmygohd, for sanity's sake please do NOT do that, please!

> Then you could just delete the email address you don't want to send to,
> and satisfy both parties.

In the end, the result would be masses of duplicate messages going
everywhere... I post to the list, I read the list, and I don't want
useless duplicates choking my mailbox thankyouverymuch.

> +-------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Stuart Longland           stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org |

(grateful for the now-trimmed .sig :)

Cheers
Tony

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