RE: poll on IVOA mailing list configuration

ignore my earlier dumb message - I have now discovered Bob's email and realise one just sends an email to Bob .. sorry I thought this was some kind of wiki-poll.

  andy

ps I fully realise I am sending this message to everybody and will send my vote to Bob in a separate message !

*-----Original Message-----
*From: Robert Hanisch [mailto:hanisch-at-stsci.edu]
*Sent: 28 January 2006 14:25
*To: interop-at-ivoa.net
*Subject: poll on IVOA mailing list configuration
*
*
*Dear Interop colleagues,
*

• The IVOA e-mail lists are currently configured so that the "reply-to"
  *address is the address of the list, not the address of the
  *person who sent
  *the message. This configuration helps maintain the continuity
  *of discussion
  *threads and avoids duplication of messages, caused when people
  *respond to a
  *message with "reply-all", which causes the response to go to
  *the original
  *sender AND the list. A further response with "reply-all" goes
  *to two more
  *correspondents AND the list. Etc. Of course, someone
  *replying with this
  *option can easily remove individual names from the response
  *and retain only
  *the address of the list.
  *
  
• However, the current configuration also leads to the
  *possibility of people
  *sending what they think are confidential replies to the sender
  *of a message,
  *and finding that the replies are broadcast to the entire list. This is
  *because the usual expectation when one says "reply" in your
  *e-mail client is
  *that you responding to the sender. We know that a number of
  *people have
  *made this mistake, resulting in unnecessary e-mail and, in
  *some instances,
  *embarrassment when private messages became public.
  *
  
• The IVOA Exec would like your opinion regarding the
  *preferred behavior of
  *the lists. Please send an e-mail to Bob Hanisch
  *(hanisch-at-stsci.edu) -- NOT
  *to the Interop list!!! -- containing one of the following responses:
  *
  *o I prefer having the IVOA e-mail lists configured as they
  *are now, with
  *the "reply-to" set to the entire list.
  *
  *OR
  *
  *o I prefer having the IVOA e-mail lists configured so that a
  *reply goes
  *only to the sender, and "reply-all" is required to respond to the list.
  *
  
• I will collect responses through Wednesday Feb 1, 5pm US
  *Eastern Standard
  *Time. I will count responses only and keep your votes
  *confidential. The
  *results will be discussed by the Exec and the Interop list
  *subscribers will
  *be notified of the results and the plan for changing the
  *configuration, if
  *any.
  *
  
• DO NOT simply "reply" to this message unless you want your
  *response to be
  *read by the entire Interop distribution list! Reply to
  *hanisch-at-stsci.edu.
  *
  *Bob Hanisch
  *
  *
  *
  *
  *