From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gatech.edu (gatech.edu [130.207.244.244]) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7) with SMTP id DAA06197 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 1995 03:38:20 +1000 (EST) Received: from math (math.skiles.gatech.edu) by gatech.edu with SMTP id AA11870 (5.65c/Gatech-10.0-IDA for ); Fri, 6 Oct 1995 13:37:41 -0400 Received: by math (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA11511; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 13:32:44 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 13:32:14 -0400 Old-Return-Path: Message-Id: <9510061732.AA15380@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: reply behavoir for zsh's mailing lists In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Oct 1995 11:54:30 EDT." <9510061554.AA08090@spacely.afive> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 13:32:14 -0400 From: Richard Coleman Resent-Message-Id: <"ydsOI1.0.jp2.xWMTm"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/424 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > >1) I sent the reply by mistake just to Zoltan again. I do that every > >time I've been away from the keyboard for a while. > > Richard, can we please fix this? I would much rather see replies default > go to the entire list. I must say that personally I wouldn't mind that default replies go to the list. But there is actually another reason for not doing this. Some (broken) auto-reply programs will actually remove some of the mail headers when they send an automatic reply. If it removes the X-loop line, then SmartList (mailing list manager I use) has no way of detecting a loop and hence sends it out to the list. This cascading action of mail messages would crash my mail server before I even knew anything was happening. Since many people are now using auto-reply programs and mail robots, I think I should play it safe. This was recently discussed on the SmartList mailing list and the consensus seems to be that having default replies go to the list is asking for disaster. Richard Coleman coleman@math.gatech.edu