On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:39:23 +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Really really sorry I have no idea how this got to silk, it was a > personal mail to me from a non-member, how did the silk id get into > this when I hit 'reply'. All you techies, figure it out. > > I am writing from vsnl webmail which seems to always create problems.. > carol
Silk sets "Reply-To" to the list, which solves two problems: 1. It prevents people from accidentally taking a conversation private and denying the rest of the world the pleasure of their wisdom. 2. In most mail clients, the only way to send a reply to the list is to "reply to all", which means that people on the list get two copies, which can be annoying. But it creates two more: 1. It causes people to accidentally make a conversation public every once in a while, which can range from embarrassing to actionable. 2. If a list poster has a "reply-to" of their own (e.g. From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) it gets lost. Usually the second pair of problems is considered more severe than the first pair, so most mailing lists (that I use, anyway) are set up to not do this.
