On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:11:39 -0500, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:03:59 -0600 > Amy disseminated the following: > > > Still can't get your replies to go to the list, can ya? ;) You know, > > no matter how much people make a fuss about the reply-to setting, > > technically one should be in the habit of hitting reply-to all for > > mailing lists, since that's how it was originally suppose to work. > > However, I'm not going to get into that debate with this crowd, you're > > all nice, but you're stubborn. ;) > > You're right, it's everybody else's problem, not GMail. They are completely > blameless in this and all of us are to be chided for not conforming to their > brilliant standards, faultless security, and responsiveness to their > community.
I didn't really want to get into this in the middle of a thread where I'm trying to get a problem solved, but since you insist... OFF TOPIC, SKIP IF YOU'RE NOT INTERESTED IN THE REPLY-TO DEBATE. THANKS. While gmail is hardly perfect, and it is in fact still beta, it is correct in it's use of the reply-to field. From what I understand of the standards that are supposed to be followed relating to email, a mailing list should not be using the reply-to field at all. Instead, the responciblity of directing replies to the correct destination lands on the email client and the person using the email client by way of the list-post field, which the newbie list correctly sets. If gmail should be faulted for anything in this mess, it's the lack of adhearing to the theading tags in the emails headers (instead using it's own system of grouping messages by subject line's similarity) and the lack of a reply-all function. The problem for the list as a whole is that people have become used ot mailing lists butchering the headers of the mailing list, so that one can only reply to the list instead of having the option to take the discussion off list as originally intended. It should be where the reply-to is set to the person who sent the message, and the list-post should be set for the mailing list's posting address, and one can either reply to contact the original poster, or reply all and share with the list. Now if you would like to continue this discussion, please either contact me off list, or start a new thread. Thank you. ~~ >^..^< ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ >^..^< ~~ http://deathkitten.net "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." ~Rudyard Kipling "Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me." ~Greg Palast
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