On 06/27/2015 05:12 PM, Dora Smith wrote:
> This list is set up so you have to reply all to reply to the list, > and that is so unusual I fail to do it half of the time. The lists do not change the Reply-To header. This is because some people consider this to be harmful: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html There is an opposing site, of course - their original article is no longer online, but someone has created an overview with a local copy of the opposing articles at at http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/listreplyto.html That aside, there are ways to handle this: Reply All As you have mentioned, there is Reply All in some mail clients. However, some people do not want to get copies of relies per private mail, so a good practice is to remove anything but the list address from the resulting mail before sending, unless you want the original author to get a copy of the mail (for example if you know that they are not subscribed to the mailing list). List-Reply The best possible way is to use a mail client that can identify and handle mailing lists and make replying to list mail easy. Some mail clients, like mutt, can be told what mail addresses are mailing lists, and if properly configured, if offers list replies: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-3.html#lists Other mail clients make use of the mailing list mail headers filed as defined in RFC 2369, and user the information contained there to offer a list reply. For example, any message sent via the gimp-user mailing list will contain the following mail headers: List-Id: GIMP User List <gimp-user-list.gnome.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/options/gimp-user-list>, <mailto:gimp-user-list-requ...@gnome.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list/> List-Post: <mailto:gimp-user-list@gnome.org> List-Help: <mailto:gimp-user-list-requ...@gnome.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list>, <mailto:gimp-user-list-requ...@gnome.org?subject=subscribe> One mail client that offers list reply to the List-Post address is Mozilla Thunderbird, via the Smart Reply button. P.S. the List-Id header is a great way to filter for list message, e.g. to have them in their own folder. -- Regards, Michael GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4CDD _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
