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at Computervision. I am a former computer programmer and current
techno-nerd. Eric is someone to whom I take computer questions.
Especially network and Internet technical questions. If Eric says this
is likely to fill my email inbox with 1000 messages, well, basically,
please, please don't do it.
Remember when that person at Dragon went on vacation and how annoying
that was? That was an auto responder... and it could have caused the
situation that Eric is talking about.
>>>>> "EJ" == Eric Johansson <esj@@harvee.billerica.ma.us> writes:
EJ> I would highly recommend that this mailing list does not default
EJ> replies back to the list. I made this mistake early in my
EJ> experience with mailing lists. The morning I woke up and found
EJ> approximately 1000 messages in my mailbox taught me why reply-to
EJ> is evil evil evil in mailing lists.
EJ> If anyone on a mailing list "goes away" or installs an
EJ> autoresponder on their mail account, then all automatic replies
EJ> will be sent to the list which then trigger's the automatic reply
EJ> which is sent the list which then triggers the automatic reply
EJ> which is sent the list which then triggers the automatic reply...
EJ> If you are lucky, your mailing list software will detect loops
EJ> like this and cancel them relatively quickly. However, detection
EJ> isn't reliable for a variety of reasons and it just isn't worth
EJ> the hassle when prevention by not using reply-to do so easy.
EJ> --- eric
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