On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 00:26 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Tuesday 2007-10-16 at 21:46 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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> > No big discussion wanted here. This is a can of worms. But I have to
> > ask:
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> > If the list Netiquette for this list is to reply to the List, why is the
> > Reply-To field set to the original author?
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> No, you got it wrong somehow: the list server doesn't set the "Reply-To" 
> field to anything, it is left alone. If you see a reply-to it was set by 
> the original sender of the email (like Bryen does).

Exactly my point. Most all other lists I am on set the reply-to to the
list. After all, the original sender did not sent the message to me, the
list did.

> There is a header in list mail like this:
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>   List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]>
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> that is used by some programs to activate the "reply to list" command. 
> Unfortunately, not all programs do so.

Totally non-standard. Informative, but I bet almost never used in any
e-mail program.

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Roger Oberholtzer

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