Re: [Caml-list] Newsgroup?

[Nicolas FRANCOIS (AKA El Bofo) <nicolas.francois@free.fr>]

Le Sat, 13 Jul 2002 16:37:38 +0200 Alessandro Baretta <alex@baretta.com> a
écrit :

> I have come to think that a newsgroup would be a whole lot 
> better than a mailing list. Oftentimes, when I reply to 
> messages sent to the list, I would expect my reply to be 
> automatically addressed to the list. On the other hand, 
> Mozilla automatically addresses the message to the personal 
> address of the author of the message to which I am replying. 
> Hence, I often end up replying privately when I actually 
> desire to reply publicly. Using a newsgroup would solve this 
> problem: all replies would automatically be addressed to the 
> newsgroup itself.

This is not a problem of your Mozilla. The "Reply to" field is set by the
list manager.

> Another possible means of addressing the issue would be to 
> configure the mailing list server to fill in the "From:" 
> field with the address of the list as opposed to the address 
> of the actual sender of the message.

Again, it is not a problem with "From", but with "Reply to".

\bye

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                   Nicolas FRANCOIS
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 A TRUE Klingon programmer does NOT comment his code
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