On Friday 22 Oct 2004 01:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > 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.
Hmm - I haven't hear of this before. It's definitely a problem. > 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). > The easiest solution, I'm sure, though we both know it won't happen. OTOH, most lists I read don't add the reply-to at all. The problem is that Mdk's adding it makes us sloppy. I forget to use the Reply-To-List when I use other lists. Maybe the whole thing needs a re-think. > 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) But then, who does ;-) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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