> >Setting the list reply-to list, ignore is not a good policy. Sometimes you >want the option of sending a query to the list which would only be of interest >to the person and just a spam for the rest of the list. In which case I send a private e-mail to the individual person(s) knowing that the other people are not interested. By using the ignore option, it ensures that mail software will not interfere with the ability to adequately send things to the list. One of the reasons I looked into getting a listserv address for my list was because there were certain people in my list who seemed unable to change their mailer preferences so that they could use a "reply-to-all" to respond to a group message. This problem seemed to occur from two of the people on my list from two different ISPs, and it was very frustrating to them because they were not getting replies from their queries to the group, because their replies to somebody elses message was always bounced back to that person, and never bounced back to the group. Thus, without list, ignore, I would have the same problem that was one of the reasons I went to a list in the first place. >From a philosophical >point of view, I despise the idea of using the limiting "ignore" option because >a mailer is not configured intelligently. The most flexible option is to >change the mailer option. Not so fast there. My university has been working on an LAN project for the past few years, and has had to make do with one of three mail client programs. The university is running under OpenVMS 7.1 at current, and the default mail program is All-In-1, a program which seems to ignore the reply-to header anyway. Another option is to use a much more tedious mail program called VMSmail, and I do not know whether or not there is a problem with reply-to headers and that, but I suspect there is only because when using All-In-1, essentially, it supercedes VMSmail in all of its usage of the mail resources for any particular account. Then, of course, there is pine, but the abilitity to configure the use of pine from the use of All-In-1 or VMSmail is very difficult to do, and requires a lot of jumping through hoops to get it to work properly. I do not know if that would have solved some of my problems or not though, and frankly, for my preferences, I find pine a very tedious mail program to use, although it probably has some significant advantages over VMSmail and All-In-1, such as the ability to properly extract binary file attachments.... Anyway, this seemed to go a bit off topic so I should probably end this message here.... >Bob Zenhausern, Ph.D. [log in to unmask] Glenn Alperin [log in to unmask]