On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 11:04, Andu wrote: > --On Monday, July 21, 2003 01:34:11 +0800 Jason Wong > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Monday 21 July 2003 00:39, Andu wrote: > > > >> > The executive summary is that there is nothing to be fixed. If you're > >> > using a less than adequate mail client which does not understand the > >> > mailing list info contained in the headers then you should either > >> > change clients or, even easier, just add the mailing list address > >> > into your address book. > >> > >> Nonsense, all clients understand reply-to if it's there and that is the > >> obligation of the sender which in this case is the list server not my > >> client. > > > > Please read the archives. > > There's several thousand emails in there, give me a subject or something. I > already attempted to do that but the search only takes 2 words, it looks > like and chances I use the relevant ones are low, just spent some time > without any relevant success.
I searched using the terms 'list' and 'reply-to', and the thread was on the first page. But it depends on which archive you're searching, of course, and you didn't specify which one you are looking in. The one I used was http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&r=1&w=2 > So what you're saying is that all the lists i've been on in the past 7-8 > years were doing it wrong but this one doesn't. This is correct. Many lists have used reply-to in a broken fashion, and many people have become trained to expect this behaviour. Please do a search on the net for a document entitled 'Reply-to Considered Harmful' for more discussion on the topic. I've seen arguments about this every couple of months for the last 10 years and quite frankly am too sick of it to bother anymore. (And no, I don't run this list, I just work on the manual.) > The list is not the originator of my message but an inteligent list > server knows that the vast majority of the clients want to reply to > the list not the originator of the message. This is not a valid assumption. I would consider any list broken which tried to outthink my decisions like that. > > It is the mail client's job (or the list subscriber to be more precise) > > to direct a reply to the appropriate place and not the list's > > responsibility to second-guess where a reply should be directed. > > So what do I do if I have one account only? Should I keep changing the > Reply-To for each email I send so that replies to other unrelated mail > don't end up on php list? The list should second-guess members of the list > want to reply to the list 99% of the time without being wrong. I disagree. Oddly, I've known people who have been operating using the correct methodology for well over a decade with no ill effects. -- Torben Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +1.604.709.0506 http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com http://www.inflatableeye.com http://www.hybrid17.com http://www.themainonmain.com -----==== Boycott Starbucks! http://www.haidabuckscafe.com ====----- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
