[Ravensfort] About the "Reply-to" settings of the Ravensfort list

[James Northfolke]

tuppence ;)


Berta Allen wrote:
> TTherasia, thanks for the option! 
>  
> Experience showed (at the time it was started) that it helped to have 
> a safety catch to prevent people from "passionately responding too 
> quickly before thinking of other innocent people on the list that are 
> stuck having to delete the explosions" to something they did not like 
> reading for all the world to read 'cause it gave that minimum one 
> degree of separation (if you will) to have to stop & carefully select 
> "reply" & think to ask yourself ... is it really worth it?
>  
> Though we have been the most civilized on this list for quite awhile 
> now, so why change it?  As soon as we do, Raven's Fort will possibly 
> be the "have you seen the explosive posts on the RF list lately - 
> wow!" 'cause murphy's law just works that way...
>  
> my two pence worth with regards,
> ~chrystal~
>  
> "Noli simul flare sorbereque"
>
> --- On *Tue, 3/10/09, Cat Clark /<drchelm at rocks4brains.com>/* wrote:
>
>     It has been said here at least twice since I arrived in these fair
>     climes that the list settings that set the "reply-to" address to the
>     original poster's email address can not be changed.  This turns out
>     not to be the case.  It is a simple change to make the default
>     "reply-to" address that of the list itself.  To make this change, one
>     of the list owners needs to go into the list admin webpage for the
>     list at lists.ansteorra.org.  After inputting the list-owner password,
>     the list admin software will drop them onto the top level admin page,
>     which is subtitled "General Options Section."  Once there, it is a
>     simple matter to scroll down not very far to the option box which
>     says:
>
>     "Where are replies to list messages directed? Poster is strongly
>     recommended for most mailing lists."
>
>     Immediately to the right are radio buttons for three choices:
>     "Poster", "This list", and "Explicit address"
>
>     One clicks on the button for "This list", thus disabling the button
>     for "Poster"
>
>     Then, one scrolls to the very bottom of the web page and clicks the
>     "submit changes" button, thus putting the Ravensfort list on the same
>     reply-to status as most of the other mailing lists at
>     lists.ansteorra.org
>
>     Of course this begs the question of whether the folks on the
>     Ravernsfort list want to have the "reply-to" setting set to the list
>     address instead of the original poster's email address.  I know it
>     would make my life happier not sending posts meant for the general
>     conversation on the list to only the most recent previous responder to
>     a list thread, but hey, that's just me.  ;-)
>
>     ttfn
>     Therasia
>     co-owner of scriptoris at lists.ansteorra.org <mailto:scriptoris at lists.ansteorra.org>
>
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