-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > mwl's "Reply-To" suggestion is a good one.
No, it isn't. The problem with setting reply-to is that it is done so infrequently that a responder is highly unlikely to notice, or to think of it. Except in the reletively rare instances when someone does set the reply-to header, reply means "reply to sender only" -- which (at least in the case where the user is using an e-mail client that actually does know how to handle mailing lists) is invariably what one wants. When one is replying to group e-mail which is not distributed by a list manager, this is the behavior that one expects. The trouble here is that mailing lists are different animals, and should have support for being treated differently... I know many of the people on this list personally, and often for me, a post incites a comment that I do want to share privately with them, and not with the list. Setting reply-to will pretty much guarantee that my private replies will be sent to the whole list. It won't take much of that for me to unsubscribe. A much better solution, IMO, is to use an e-mail client that understands mailing lists, or add support for it to your favorite mailer, or complain to the developers until they do. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9LaB9djdlQoHP510RAmv2AKC35h7rQF5XBBWdy44aFjwKUu7Z1wCeNePQ r81nCv026WV8hus03vzOdfQ= =/TdQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
