Re: Why private messages are likely to get private replies (Was: How to execute a program after every change in the Directory?)

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Wednesday, November 24, 2004 5:01 PM -0200 Andreas Hasenack 
<andreas@conectiva.com.br> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:44:02PM +0100, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> > Bruno Negrão wrote:
> >
> > >>
> > >> Ok but, what about "overlay" and "SLAPI"? Where can i learn about
> > >> them?
> > >
> > > For overlays, the question has been answered many times, you can
> > > search the archives.  For SLAPI, in principle thet follow Netscape's
> > > API, so search the archives for pointers to that topic.  If you want
> > > to hire someone to develop overlays for your purposes, you can contact
> > > my employer at info@sys-net.it
> >
> > I have no problem in continuing this discussion in an open forum.  You
> > contacted me privately to ask about something I already discussed on the
> > forum.  Apart from giving you the essential directions to available
>
> May I suggest configuring the mailing list manager to force a reply-to
> header to the list address. I also had this problem in many lists with
> personal replies and in the end it was just because people hit the reply
> button instead of group-reply or something similar.

I generally set a reply-to header when posting to lists in my mail client 
(automatically via "identities") but the really determined still completely 
ignore it and reply to me directly.  I eventually set my "from" to be the 
list as well. :P  Although after rebuilding my computer and reinstalling 
everything, I haven't redone that.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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