This seems to be degenerating into a discussion of what the people on
this list find easier to work with. As an experienced e-mail user,
which most of us here presumably are, I don't so much mind having to
over-ride the reply-to: header when it ass-u-me-s the wrong thing. I
know how to read headers and if they're not what I want I change them.
What really bothers me about reply-to:, and I know bothers a lot of people,
is that there are lots and lots of e-mail newbies around who don't know
how to edit headers, and blindly assume that their mailer's reply feature
will somehow read their mind and do whichever function they were thinking
of when they clicked it.
I am on a couple of lists that are not about technical subjects (one is
music related, the other is a support group) that are by and large
inhabited by the technically clueless. The amount of personal reply mail
cluttering these two lists is staggering. The inhabitants have largely
grown accustomed to it, same as they have grown accustomed to waiting in
traffic jams if they live in an area that has outgrown its highway system.
Those who can't take the volume uns_bscribe and the group is poorer with
their loss. Just because the inhabitants have grown accustomed doesn't
mean that they wouldn't be happier growing accustomed to a different
reality. One in which the two reply functions their mailer presents
them with actually perform different functions.
-Mitch
--
"Families can't trust Disney"
