All didactic pontifications aside, I disagree. This is the only list I subscribe to
that
forces me to enter the list address when I press reply. I find that inconvenient and
counter-intuitive, as I suspect do others on this list based on the fact that a
request was
made to send replies to the list, not just the poster.
Rich Lafferty wrote:
> Quoting Chad S. Lauritsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) from Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:04:10PM
>-0600:
> > That's the list's fault.
>
> No, it's not. A mailing list shouldn't *ever* add a Reply-To:; that's the
> job of the sender of the message.
What principle are you basing this on?
>
>
> > Could whoever runs this list fix that by adding a reply-to: field in
> > the message headers or something?
>
> No, you can fix it by using your mail agent to send your message to
> wherever you want your message to go.
>
> (For what it's worth, the mail agent "mutt" has a feature which lets
> you choose reply-to-sender, reply-to-all, or reply-to-mailing-list.
> I suspect you could do a macro along those lines in most other mailers,
> though.)
>
> HTH,
>
> -Rich
>
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