>>How a
>>response gets routed - back to the originator or back to the entire
>>list - depends on how the client mail programi is configured. In
>>non-computerese, this means that you, the person typing in the
>>response, determine who gets to see your response. You have to be
>>aware and chose whether your response is going back to the person
>>who sent the original message or if it will go out to everyone on
>>shakuhachi@weber.ucsd.edu
>I gather that many computer system administrators now set up the e-mail
>facility for their users with the default value for "Reply" (or whatever it
>may be called) being only the address of the person who composed the
>original message to which a reply is being sent (or contemplated), and not
>the mailing list from which it emanated or the addresses of all of the
>recipients of the original message.
Actually, configuring the client program is not possible for this
result. The configuration is done for a default reply to field in
the email that is forwarded by the mailing list program. There is a
very thorough article on how this should be set up, and why at:
http://www.halisp.net/halisp/reply-to-harmful.html
To summarize, there is a process called reply-to munging that would
allow the emails to be sent to the list rather than the original
sender when you hit [reply]. Most email programs give you a choice
of [reply to all] and [reply to sender] (or some similar naming, eg
[reply-to-group] and [reply-to-author]) anyway though, where
the reply to all would include the mailing list. Reply-to munging breaks
the [reply to sender/author] function and is considered bad.
As our list admin stated, you can check this yourself and please take
the time to do what you think is the right thing :-)
Ralf
BTW Thanks Bruce for the great list :-)
PS To add some shakuhachi content, the science fiction books by
David Zindell consisting of Neverness (prequel) and the trilogy of
The Broken God, The Wild and War in Heaven are about a character
who is given a Shakuhachi by a teacher and carries it with him
as his only personal belonging through various travels to save
the universe. He pulls it out of his robe's sleeve pocket when
he needs to calm and collect himself :-) R.
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