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[Roger Lindmark]

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999 16:34:30 -0700, Paul Wiener wrote:

>On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 00:54:47 +0200, Roger Lindmark wrote:
>
>>I am not sure that you are correct. Crossposting can be inhibited by
>>the fact that you have to be subscriber to be able to post to a list.
>>Many lists have this restriction.
>
>I don't see the relevance of the foregoing.

It means that, if Subba posts to this List and two others in the same
message I will not be able to crosspost to the other two lists about
networking as I am not a subscriber to those lists. Many lists have
this restriction of subscribers only to avoid spamming.

>
>>In addition, if you hit reply to for
>>this list for instance you will only reply to the list or the sender. I
>>think most people use this and rarely reply to all.
>
>The point is that when the person replies, the one list that gets put into the
>address field is not necessarily the list the person meant to reply to; i.e., the list the
>person was reading the message on.

I have crossposted to three different lists at a few occaisions and in
a message saved from the listserver of one list  it seems, if you hit
reply you can choose between the List you got the message from or the
sender. However, some rare lists like TEAMOS2HELP-L can cause trouble
as you then have to choose reply to all always when replying to the
list. You can as a PMMail/2 user circumvent this by using a REXX-script
at send that removes the reply-to information of the header of outgoing
messages to this List.


Sincerely Yours

Roger


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