This Mailinglist - another vote for sanity

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:01:38 +0000, Ewan Mac Mahon <ewan at macmahon.me.uk> wrote:
<snip>
> Equally, imagine a
> non-subscriber posting; the current approach would allow people to use
> 'reply to all' so that both the poster and the list get responses;
> reply-to mangling would force all replies to the list so they'd never
> see any answers to their post.

How is this possible? I didn't think you could post to a list unless
you were subscribed.

> 
> You're right that reply-to mangling can be helpful on closed lists where
> the only choice is whether to reply to another subscriber on or off
> list; what you're missing is that it completely breaks several other,
> useful, modes of discussion.
> 
> Ewan
> 
> 
> --
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> 
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Regards,
Russ