On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 09:48:01AM -0400, Jay Savage wrote: > On 4/27/06, Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I tend to agree with the principles on which you base your opinion, but > >I don't think they're properly applied here, necessarily. I've never > >been subscribed to any other interactive email list that didn't default > >the reply-to header to the list address, as far as I recall. I don't > >think I'm alone in that. As such, this handling of it seems to violate > > You're not. I think I reply to sender and then end up forwarding to > the list at least twice a week.
Thanks. It's nice to have my suspicions confirmed now and then. > > regualr basis. *Exactly 0* of them include a reply to list feature. > Even the venerable mutt doesn't do it by default. Not that I can use > mutt most of the time, anyway. To clarify, from a Mutt user: With Mutt, default behavior for list-reply is to use that as the replying address when you use Shift-L to create a new email while the email to which you want to reply is either highlighted in the "mailbox" view or open for reading. When the list-reply header is used for the list, using the standard R key for replies functionality of Mutt defaults to setting the originator of the email as the recipient. > > The *only* way you lose functionality by rewriting reply-to is if you > also munge from so it looks like the massage came from the list. I've > know lists that do that, but this isn't one of them. That would be a change in list functionality I'd welcome as an alternative to the current situation, if we wanted to keep the reply-to header pristine. > > That siad, maybe it made sense ten years ago. We get this wonderful > resource for free, and if the people who maintain the hardware and > software that runs it don't have the time or inclination to muck about > in the rewrite rules...it's a fairly minor annoyance, and I'm just > glad this list is here at all. Agreed. I certainly don't want to sound ungrateful, and I fear that might be the impression I'm giving. I'd just like to see it's few warts improved upon. -- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ] "There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production." - MacUser, November 1990 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
