Re: [MacPerl-Forum] Mailing list idea

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 14:04 -0700 4/15/99, Vicki Brown wrote:
> Personally, I like reply to list. I think we have the configuration as
> reply to sender because that's what Matthias had. The question is, what
> does the group want?  (I hate sending replies and discovering later they
> went only to one person...)

At 14:05 -0700 4/15/99, Brian "L." Matthews wrote:
> Not for me. I'm on another mailing list that did this and the list was
> always getting replies that should have been sent directly. The list
> moderator finally switched so replies go to just the sender by default
> and the list has been much nicer. In my opinion, it *should* be harder
> to send a message to a bunch of people instead of just one.

As a by the way, many email clients allow the user to decide whether "reply
to sender" or "reply to all" is the default _at the client end_.

Eudora does, as does Unix mail (i.e. I know how to do it with those ;-)
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