On 06/23/2017 11:20 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 06/23/2017 11:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> On 06/23/2017 05:39 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>> Having mentioned the TB subject, I also have "problems" with the
>>> upstream versions of TB I use when interacting with this mail list.
>>> TB has "reply", "reply all" and "reply list", where "reply all" works
>>> as expected, whereas if I use "reply" to say respond to your email
>>> then that build the reply to send it to you and not the mailing list,
>>> so to reply to the mailing list I have to use "reply list", and I
>>> have never been able to work out why and whether its a mailing list
>>> issue or a TB issue.
>>
>> It seems to be a recent change to the list that the reply-to is now
>> set to the original sender instead of the list address.  But thanks to
>> you mentioning the reply to list option in TB, I just noticed that
>> button and then found the shortcut key is CTRL-SHIFT-L for that.  I
>> will train myself to use that in future.
> 
> I just checked the email headers and the reply-to still points to the
> list!  I have discovered that it is a change in TB after all.  That is
> rather annoying.  See
> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/52.0/releasenotes/ :
> 
> "When replying to a mailing list, reply will be sent to address in From
> header ignoring Reply-to header"
> 
> Sorry for blaming the mailing list...

Thanks for researching that. Having a "Reply-To" header in the first
place is specifically for this sort of use (lists and such). How very
incredibly annoying!

<soap>
I see absolutely no reason to force people to "train themselves" to do
something completely different than they've done before--especially when
it's to accommodate a package's apparent violation (or at the least,
misuse) of the standard. Sheesh! Time to look for a new mail client.
</soap>
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