No . . i don't think anything is mucking with his email headers . . . .the reply-to: just isn't included in the headers at all . .so most email programs use the from: as a reply address. . . which belongs to the individual that sent the email.
Anthony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:19 AM Subject: Re: reply-to in mailing list > On Thursday 10 October 2002 10:58, Jerry wrote: > >Not to beat a dead horse, but it would be nice to see > >[amanda-users] in the subject line to make it easier > >to sort mailing lists. > > And it doesn't come in that way at your site? If you are subscribed, > and its not, then something is seriously mucking with the headers > of your incoming mail. > > >--- Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:41:18AM -0400, Galen > >> > >> Johnson wrote: > >> > I've had a thunk regarding the list...would it be > >> > >> possible to set it up > >> > >> > so the list actually inserts a 'Reply-To: > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > >> > >> > header. This would make it so the default reply > >> > >> (rather than reply to > >> > >> > all) goes to the list. This would also make the > >> > >> archives a bit more > >> > >> > complete since us lazy users that forget to "reply > >> > >> to all" would start > >> > >> > posting the solutions to the list directly (kinda > >> > >> like having to opt out > >> > >> > rather than in). > >> > >> For a summary of the major arguments on each side of > >> this holy war, > >> ask google about "Reply-To Considered Harmful" and > >> its rebuttal, > >> "Reply-To Considered Useful". > >> > >> My vote, FWIW, is to leave things as they are. I > >> use a mail client (mutt) > >> which is smart enough to have a 'reply to list' > >> function in addition to > >> the ubiquitous 'reply to sender' and 'reply to all'. > >> If your client > >> doesn't support 'reply to list', file a feature > >> request or switch to > >> one that does. Don't ask the rest of the world to > >> compensate for your > >> software's limitations. > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > >http://faith.yahoo.com > > -- > Cheers, Gene > AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M > Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M > 99.17% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly >
