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From:
Joshua N Pritikin
Date:
July 24, 2000 10:29
Subject:
Re: group lists
Message ID:
20000724132925.F3716@ghostwheel.wks.na.deuba.com
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 11:02:01AM -0500, duff@cbi.tamucc.edu wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 11:37:53AM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > i am in favor of multiple
> > lists but we can easily solve the problem of those who want to see the
> > overall picture. either they subscribe to all the list or we have a
> > special read only list which gets a cc from every sub list (mail from
> > that global list would have a reply-to set to the originating
> > list).
> 
> Why make the general list read only?

Because it'll be too high volume for anyone to follow unless they are
clinically insanity, in which case I wouldn't want to read their posts
anyway.

More seriously, why can't someone reading the "everything" list just
respond to messages in the proper forum?

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