At 05:01 AM 1/14/2003, Ed Leafe wrote:
On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 07:02 AM, Crosbie Fitch wrote:
Maybe the following indicates the reply-to policy of this list? http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
I don't buy those arguments at all. Most people simply click "Reply", or, more commonly, press the shortcut keystroke, for all their email replies. Messages on a list are no different. I've been on both kinds of lists, and those that don't add the Reply-To always suffer from questions being posted with no corresponding answers. The whole purpose of most support lists is to spread the knowledge; I may not have that problem today, but by reading about it and its solution, I'll be better prepared if I come across it tomorrow.
Yeah, the arguments against enabling "reply to list" are highly bogus. One could just as easily argue that mail clients shouldn't have a "reply to all" function... how many times does *that* get abused? I've been using lists for more than 10 years now and reply-to-list *is* the default behavior I expect. Aside from this list and c.l.python, every one of the lists I subscribe to does it this way. I can't say how many times I've provided thoughtful answers to questions only to realize that they didn't post to the list. I can't be the only one who's done that numerous times. This list would be a more complete, more informative, easier-to-use resource to use if it adopted the default behavior and put the list address in the reply-to field. My $.02 Dylan