At 19:53 12/06/2007 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
Why not just hit "Reply All" and go from there.
A copy of your response gets posted to the mailing list, and a copy
goes directly to the person who asked the question. All bases
covered and no additional effort required.
Why not? Because it doesn't do what you say.
In my mailer at least - and I guess in others - Reply All includes
the original recipient (that's the list) and the sender, but as
evidenced by the Reply-To header, not the From header, (that's the
list again) in the To field and it puts the addresses in the Cc
header in the new Cc field. The address in the original From header
doesn't get a look in. If the sender of the original message
includes his or her own Reply-To header, that is ignored too, as it
is superseded by the Reply-To header inserted by the list processor,
which precedes it.
There's an argument that list processors have no business inserting a
Reply-To header, which is instead the sole domain of the message's
author. RFC 2822 appears to require this: 'When the "Reply-To:"
field is present, it indicates the mailbox(es) to which the *author*
of the message suggests that replies be sent" (my emphasis).
Brian Barker
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