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The Wednesday 2007-10-17 at 08:10 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
If the list Netiquette for this list is to reply to the List, why is the
Reply-To field set to the original author?
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.
- From the previous list FAQ:
FAQ - Frequently asked questions of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.
...
Q2. Why do my replies go to the original poster and not the list?
A2. We do not "munge" the mail headers by inserting
a "Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" because it makes it more
difficult subscribers to handle the mail the way they want to.
Your mail client probably has a "reply" function as well as a
"reply to all" or "reply to list" one; Please use the latter if
you want you message to go to the list and not just to the
original poster.
Also, please don't complain about this on the list, it has
been discussed many, many, many times in the past already.
For background information see
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
New! Even Sourceforge has turned to the dark side:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6693&group_id=1
There is a header in list mail like this:
List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]>
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.
Not so: RFC 2369 and 4021.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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