[svlug] TDMA / list crosspost

[George Georgalis]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 12:56:39PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 10:53:47AM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:
>> On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 10:48:25 -0700 
>> Marc MERLIN <marc_news at merlins.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > I know it sucks, but please don't. Now that lists are member only,
>> > crossposts against lists causes the answers to bounce and/or add
>> > moderator work to deal with posts from non members (people answering
>> > and Ccing from other lists)
>> 
>> <Ahem> Front the list with TMDA and this is no longer an issue. </Ahem>
>
>It's not only  for anti-spam reasons, like  many lists, the idea  is that if
>you want to see  answers to your post, you should be  on the list, otherwise
>people bother to answer with list reply to or whatever, and the poster never
>sees his/her answer.
>
>Yes, this can be argued either way, I know.
>
>As for your TDMA setup, it looks nice,  but I barely have the time to get my
>own home  stuff configured right  now, so TDMA on  this list will  wait, and
>again, I'm not actually convinced it's what we want anyway.
>(it'd kind  of solve  our side  and then  svlug members  would get  their Cc
>bounced on the other crossposted lists and annoy other list admins)

If you are willing to change things, adding a
 Reply-to: svlug at lists.svlug.org
would be an easy way all around: the other lists would only get a reply
if explicitly intended. The http://tmda.net/ looks worthwhile; I'll try
it sometime. The nylug.org list doesn't like foreign posts, maybe I can
slip them a bcc though, and anyone can post to the kplug list (just so
long as they don't bcc there) but since Reply-to is used, you are only
likely to only get a response if you are subscribed.

on the other hand I'm all ready using a procmailrc to send messages
(change from address depending on destination etc) so sending separate
emails (with the same Message-ID) to each list would be do-able on my
side too. 

// George


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