On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:04:05PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Those MUAs already *do* the right thing when a user presses “reply to > author” (sometimes just called “reply”): they reply to the author or, > if the author sets a ‘Reply-To’ field, to the author's chosen reply > address from that field. > > The correct MUA command to use when replying to a list is “reply to > list”, which follows the information set by the list software in the > RFC 2369 fields on every message.
Idealism is fine, but pragmatism is more useful. > Many of the more popular MUAs on your list have this command already, Can you name any others apart from mutt that come with this by default? > So I'd modify your point above to say: “Until the following MUAs are > fixed to have a proper RFC-2369-conformant “reply to list” command”, > and reducing the list of recalcitrant MUAs accordingly. Mandating something which relies on the wholesale upgrade of hundreds of MUAs to get right by default doesn't sound like a good solution to me. I don't care how many RFCs you wave in my face. :) > > /me uses Debian's default MUA > > /me tries hard to avoid CC'ing sender. > > It's quite easy: use the “reply to list” command when you want your > reply to go to the list. If you have one, and you remember to use it. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org