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

[Bill Long]

Malcolm Cohen wrote:
> 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?


That would be effectively the same as going back to the old days when 
the reply-to field was not overwritten, and you always used "reply all" 
instead.  That seems like the simplest solution.


Cheers,
Bill



> 
> Cheers,

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