Re: Federal Rules of Evidence

[Ken Connelly <Ken.Connelly () UNI EDU>]

Having a Reply-to: address be the list address supposedly "fosters
communication".  In my (almost) 20 years of being the postmaster at
uni.edu, I adamantly refused to configure a local list that way unless
the list was small and the list owner could convince me that his/her
list really should be setup that way.  The exceptions could be counted
on one hand.

Regardless, it's not the MUA that controls where a "reply" goes, but the
MTA at the home of the list.  And pity the fool that set a list up so
that the list address was the envelope-from on posts to the list!

- ken

John Ladwig wrote:
> Agreed.
>
> But the thing I don't understand is, have MUA's changed so much in recent uyears that it's difficult-to-impossible to 
> reply privately to a list message, and not send the endless stream of "me to" posts to everyone?
>
> I truly miss the days of Sun-managers, where the questions went wide, all responses went to the original poster, who 
> was obligated to provide the list with a summary post.
>
> *sigh*   Where's Emily Postnews when you need her...
>
>    -jml
>
> PS yes, I know your alter-ego's here.
>
>   
> > > > Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU> 2011-09-02 14:05 >>>
> > > >         
> On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:55:24 PDT, Mark Boolootian said:
> And the 4-line version, much more demonstrative of the issue...
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad and annoying thing?
>   
> > A: Top-posting.
> > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
> >     

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- Ken
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