[Ravensfort] About the "Reply-to" settings of the Ravensfort list
James Northfolke
jamesnorthfolke at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 07:44:31 PDT 2009
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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