Just to correct you, Ian. I'm not getting two replies, like Aaron. Just the one, thank you very much. My reply-to address is different than my proper email address because I use an alias for my everyday email address. That way, if I ever change ISP's, I only have to change the alias' redirection.
As to Aarons' situation, I'm probably off the mark there, as I was only thinking aloud that you might have been hitting the reply to all button instead of the normal "reply" button. My apologies, mea culpa, etc. Ian Bruseker wrote: > Absolutely positive. I do know how to work a mouse. ;-) > > Huh, well, I was mistaken about one thing. Aaron isn't the only one on the > list who gets two replies - you do too. > > Let me hypothesize: Both of you have explicitly set Reply To in your email > program settings. Am I correct? Check the email headers. All the answers > are there. There are 2 Reply-To entries in the headers of each email you > guys send out, one generated by your MUA, one generated by the mailing list > software. Reply-to is only really intended for use when you send from one > email address, but expect the reply to go to a different address. Since > both of you seem to send and receive from the same address, you don't > actually need to set that. Furthermore, the CLUG mailing list software > (more specifically, the list admin, whoever you are, has set it up this way) > does the extra magic of adding a reply-to entry for the list as the email > passes through (this is known as "Reply-to Munging", see link below), to > make sure conversations stay on the list, where one expects them to be. It > does not, however, remove any existing reply-to entries, as a courtesy to > the sender, to respect their settings. Since you guys have explicitly set > it, there are two reply-to's, so Outlook is putting both those address in > the To: line of any reply. That doesn't seem to be what you want, so I > suggest you unset Reply-to, since you don't actually need it to be set. > > (Don't blame Outlook, by the way, it's only doing its job - two reply-to > headers, two To: addresses. If you want to blame the user for not > explicitly deleting your personal email address from every reply they want > to send to the list, go ahead, but they shouldn't have to do it in the first > place.) > > Note that if the mailing list software did not set reply-to, and since you > guys explicitly do set reply-to, then every reply to you would instantly go > off-list. > > For the definitive argument for why reply-to munging is a bad thing, read > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html But if you agree with the > positions stated in that document, take it up with the list admin, not with > the list users. > > Personally, I don't care which way it's set. Sometimes I take the time to > delete the extra addresses, sometimes I don't, but if you get two replies > from me, you have no one to blame but yourself and the list admin. ;-) > > Ian > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: David J. Bourassa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 12:00 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: (clug-talk) some quick notes >> >> >>I don't know Ian. Are you sure you're not hitting the "Reply to All >>button" ? Mine doesn't work that way (Mozilla). >> >>Ian Bruseker wrote: >> >>>Aaron, >>> >>>Take a look at the "To:" line. Notice it has both the clug >>>email and your >>>email address? I hit "Reply", and that's what I got as reply to email >>>addresses. No other person on this list has that issue. I think the >>>problem is at your end. Check your email program settings, the issue is >>>probably there. >>> >>>Ian >> >>-- >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Dave Bourassa at >> http://members.shaw.ca/djb.enterprises/ >> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> > > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Bourassa at http://members.shaw.ca/djb.enterprises/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------
