On 15 May 2008 at 8:48, Richard Detwiler wrote: ... > Like Harold, I use Thunderbird, and I find it aggravating that doing a > "Reply all" does not work in terms of sending a copy to the original > poster (for cases where they are unsubscribed). (Why doesn't "reply all" > really reply to all? Isn't that what it's supposed to do? That always > puzzled me.)
'reply all' does do what it says with TB. I sent myself a message "from mike" "to mike" "reply-to www-1", and started to reply with tb. A straight 'reply' goes to www-1 as expected; 'reply all' goes to www-1 cc'ed to mike. OTOH I took a message from an unsubscribed user off the list, which had "from xyzzy@" "reply-to [EMAIL PROTECTED]" "to [EMAIL PROTECTED]", and /both/ reply and reply-all just go to 'users@'. I think what's happening is that the 'reply-to' [EMAIL PROTECTED] overrides the original 'from' address - tb's 'reply all' then sees two copies of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address and simplifies it. This is in contrast to Pegasus, which offers all relevant fields with tick boxes when you do a reply. If that's right, the behaviour is fair from tb's pov - if the originator specified a response address, tb honours it. The cause is the ooo list software making sure replies go to the list using the same mechanism. (I'm sure someone else can put that more simply!) -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
