RE: list description


Subject: RE: list description
From: Mike Tibor (tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 29 2002 - 13:14:37 AKST


On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Jan Zumwalt wrote:

>
> Some personal observations...
>
> I feel the list does have control over the default recipient. The "lister"
> has an option of putting the "list" or the "author" in the "from" header.
> Therefore, the default "reply" recipient is being controlled. The AKLUG
> list was the first I had ever run across that placed the "author's" address
> in the "from" header and caused me grief for a week or two before I realized
> what was happening.

That's correct--in fact, when we first moved this list from Tara-Lu's
server I had it configured with a Reply-To: header containing the list
address, but received many vocal requests to eliminate it. :-)

It really does just boil down to personal preference.

Mike

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