On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Stephan Knauss wrote:
Florian Lohoff wrote:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html
Off-topic can be fun ;)
Honestly: With the reply-to list add-On for Thunderbird I don't miss
anything. It should be included in standard distribution.
This is such a strange discussion, which comes up from time to time on
various mailinglists and everybody is convinced his opinion is right.
Actually I see no big difference between both and prefer the Reply-To-List
default which is equal to the way usenet postings are done (probably I'm
too old, as I used usenet long before mailinglists :-).
My mails have a Reply-To-List always (because I much more often got double
mails due to unexperienced authors than I got private mails over lists)
and until now the "But-I-Cant-Send-To-Author" fraction never complained.
When you send private mails as answer to mailing-list mails you have
to check the target address in any case, as like me the author may have
choosen to set the Reply-To himself, so most of the arguments are invalid.
But I don't think this will ever stop the discussions and the websites
related to these.
And BTW it is possible to configure mail programs, so they automatically
know what to do. I have a "Reply-To-List" for all my mailinglists, whether
they use modified headers or not ;-) Since I use that my rate of false
"private to list" messages (or the other way round) has dropped
significantly.
Ciao
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