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Jim Osborn <[log in to unmask]>
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Discussion of Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 4 Nov 1995 21:59:26 -0800
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Jerry J Bromenshenk <[log in to unmask]> raises an excellent point:
>Should your answer go to the whole list or just to the sender?
>Simple requests for basic information should go to the sender.
>...
>These questions are important to the requester, but do all 600+ of us
>need to see 5-20 answers to the same question?
 
All the other lists I read have Reply-To: point to the message
sender, not the whole list.  Not only does it cut down inadvertant
broadcasts, but it's easier: personal reply, involving a unique
address, is automatic, while general list reply, which now requires
some effort, uses a fixed, easily-memorized address.
 
Sorry, Jerry; I thought this might rate consideration of the whole list. :)
My vote would be to point Reply-To: to the originator.
 
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