After some of the, shall we say, "heated" discussion here and on the
users list, I decided to try to identify and test some assumptions. The
basic one I noticed right away was that using Reply All to a message on
the list would send a copy to both the originator and the list. Now, for
years my procedure for replying to unsubs has been to copy their
address, use Reply, and paste the address into a second "To" field. Why
was I doing that, when Reply All would be easier and less error prone?
So I tried it -- and remembered!
The OOo list management (ezmlm or CollabNet-- I'd love to know who does
what here) sets a Reply-To header that includes only the list address.
This precedes the original Reply-To containing whatever the sender
specified, or the sender's address by default. In Thunderbird, at least,
this means that the From and the sender's Reply-To are ignored; Reply
and Reply All both are set up to go only to the list. Is Thunderbird's
response typical?
In any case, a strategy that relies on Reply All apparently would first
require changes to the setting of the Reply-To header. That puts it
outside the bounds of the kind of solution I'm investigating (by the
way, I'm up to three alternatives now, plus possible combinations!).
Note that this does not apply to responses to attachments in digest-form
messages; Thunderbird sets up these responses with the sender's address
as 'To:" and the list as "Cc:" Again, is this typical for email clients?
I still need to check the analogous operations for Gmane newsgroup
responses, unless somebody else tells me here.
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