On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 03:24:01AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 01:03:32PM -0600, Yaron wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > > I also have root access to the mailing list server, so if I wanted
to be
> > > autocratic about it I could just make the change unilaterally.
However, I
> > > think that would be rather irresponsible.
> >
> > Well, so far we've got quite a few people saying they'd like the
change, a
> > couple of people saying they don't need the change, and zero people
saying
> > they're against it.
>
> I've been holding my tongue thus far, as I'm no longer local to the LUG,
> but, since you've said that there's nobody against it...  I'm against
> it.

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Dave,

Thanks for making the reply that I was going to make, but doing
a much better job of it than I would have.

I too would like to avoid setting the reply-to.  If you like the
reply-to set to the list, then I suggest that you set up your MUA
so that it does sets the headers appropriately.

I don't post to the list all that much anymore, but when I do it
is still fairly common for someone to intentionally send me a
private thank you or other message that wouldn't be useful to the
entire list.  I also ocassionally get private followups that
should have gone to the list, but I woould guess that I get more
of the former.

So I would like to keep the list the way it is, though I am
resigned to probably losing this one.

Another area that this list has been drifting on is posting
style. I would like to encourage people to please bottom post and
trim posts.  I know that long term this is a losing battle, but
I hope that this list can hang on for a few more years ;).

PS - Both the MUA wrote this message in (mutt) and the MUA I am posting
from (SquirrelMail) have deal correctly with Post List.

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