On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 10:12:35PM -0400, gabe f wrote: > harmful in that it adds traffic to the list? I learn things by hearing > replies that > people might have (inadvertantly) made direct to the author. If the > reply-to > field was not "munged" people would have to choose to make the > threads readable by the list ( like a news group). If they didn't think > about it, > or decided for some (shy/considerate) reason to make their responses not > to the group, then we'd really miss out on a lot of knowledge. my 2 > cents.
They should be pressing the right button in their MUA; Reply-To is a field that says "if you want to reply to the person who wrote this message, send mail here". Setting Reply-To list-wise, thus impedes personal replies (hint: not all traffic belongs on-list). -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.kde.org - http://www.debian.org - http://www.xwin.org "Configurability is always the best choice when it's pretty simple to implement" -- Havoc Pennington, gnome-list
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