On Thursday 21 October 2004 12:42 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 16:50, David Johnson wrote:
>>> snip > > As for my replyto: address, what should it be set for? > > For mailing lists it should be set to blank. It is often a good idea to > have a new 'account' or profile set up for the mailing lists if you like to > keep the reply-to for others. It's usually not necessary, though. Hitting > Reply in almost any mail client would direct the mail to you by default. > > Not all lists do it, but Mandrake lists set to reply to the list if you > leave yours blank. If you don't the others on the list will not see > replies, and it makes following threads and troubleshooting much harder. > > Anne Anne: The difficulty is that David uses gmail and, from what I've read, gmail _insists_ that its address and no other appear in the reply-to field. Any attempts to change it are rejected. OK, that ain't cool on gmail's part, but that is the way that it is. And then there are frequent episodes when we go through the same drill whenever some non-gmail poster innocently (or perhaps with good reason) uses a non-blank reply-to field. It all amounts to a lot of bytes getting bashed, stored and archived. Wouldn't it be in everyone's best interest if sympa be taught to just add the list address to whatever it finds in the reply-to field? I know of at least one other list that does exactly that (name supplied on request). And wouldn't it be nice if sympa could be taught to handle cross posting properly so that we don't all get two copies of the same posting? -- cmg (who has no sympathy with sympa)
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