(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.3994) Paper 09-238

[Malcolm Cohen]

Hi Aleks,

Aleksandar Donev wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 June 2009 06:19, N.M. Maclaren wrote:
>
>   
I know it's a pain, but once again I point out that the message being 
replied to was a WG5 message.  Sending a reply to the J3 list is just 
wrong - even if the original sender is on the J3 list, you are still 
cutting out half of the readership.  (In this case, my suspicion is that 
Nick is not on the J3 list, but even if he is, my point stands.)

One day maybe we'll have a list server that can set the Reply-To field 
for WG5-originating messages to the WG5 list, but I don't see that 
happening any time soon.  In the meantime we all have to be 
extra-careful when replying to WG5-originating messages.

Hmm, I wonder if we could split the J3 list into the normal list and a 
"j3-no-reply-munging" list (with the exact same members, preferably 
taken from the exact same file)?  Then we could change the WG5 list to 
send to that one.  Of course that would not solve the problem completely 
(since "Reply" would then send to only the original sender) but it would 
probably be better than what we have now.  Comments?  Dan?

Cheers,
-- 
...................Malcolm Cohen, Nihon NAG, Tokyo.