On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:47:59AM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Is it possible that someone fixes the "Reply to:" address of this > mailing list?
It doesn't appear broken to me. > Now it doesn't have any "Reply to:" address, and when someone presses > the "Reply" button in a mail client, only the original sender gets the > mail; you have to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] address manually if you want > the mail to reach the list. And that is how it's supposed to work. If you want to reach the list, you can either click 'Reply to List' or (if your mail client doesn't provide such a feature) then 'Reply to All' and modify the recipient list by hand. The 'Reply' button (and, hence, the Reply-To field) is for sending a message to the author of the message. The list is not the author of the message. By munging the Reply-To field, you will possibly break what the author of the message specified as where they wanted personal replies sent. It's one of the problems of using e-mail (an inherently point-to-point protocol) as a many-to-many mechanism. But there are proper procedures in place to deal with these problems, and they involve the List-Post (or equivalent) and Mail-Followup-To headers. Unfortunately, the standards aren't universally implemented. However, there are freely available and functional e-mail clients which do, so there really isn't much excuse for not being able to just "Reply to List", (apart from ridiculous corporate e-mail client policies). - Matt
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