[aklug] Re: Small note: duplicate e-mails

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Richard Moore wrote:

> There is actually no way of changing the fact that all the list does is keep
> an archive of the email, and then forward the email, using the senders
> address as the sender field. However there might be a way to go through the
> program and change the sender, because I do know there are some mail
> clients, that allow you to change the sender field. Ours either cannot
> change or whoever set it up left it as default, which would be the sender
> being equal to the sender or originally sent the email.
> Richard

Several years ago when I administered the list, I took a poll to see what
people wanted, and the vote was to have reply go to the sender. The
alternative was, of course, to set reply-to: to the list address, but
people preferred it the other way. If we want to change that behavior, it
can certainly be done.

What I do with the current behavior (and I use pine, but all other MUAs
that are worth anything can do this too) is to reply-to-all, and then
delete the address of the original sender so that I only send a single
message which goes to the list.

Mike
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Received on Wed Aug 20 14:42:03 2008