[Bioperl-l] Changing default reply-to on this list

Nathan Haigh n.haigh at sheffield.ac.uk
Tue Nov 21 18:20:15 UTC 2006


Sendu Bala wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to propose changing the default reply-to for posts on this list 
> from the current 'reply to the poster' to 'reply to the mailing list'. 
> That way people can just hit 'reply' instead of 'reply to all' in order 
> to get a reply back to the list.
>
> If people then changed the current habit of 'reply to all' to just 
> 'reply' it would avoid people being replied to getting multiple copies 
> of the reply - one direct, a second from the mailing list.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Sendu.
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I don't seem to get multiple copies!

However, the first reason (to just hit replay) is reason enough to
change the default behaviour! :-)

Nath



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