On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 07:33 AM, Kyler Laird wrote:
[Do you prefer that I send only to the list? I'm copying you since you copied me.]
This problem comes up every few weeks. The admins refuse to acknowledge that the correct behavior for replying to a message on the list is to reply back to the list. Instead, they cling to some purist position about "munging" Reply-to: headers, even though that results in a default behavior that is incorrect: clicking "Reply" in most email clients only replies to the sender (off-list), while "Reply All" replies to the sender, to the list, and to anyone else CC'd on the post. Neither behavior is correct. I've debated this in the past here, and the admins seem pretty resistant to making things work to the benefit of the subscribers. They prefer to remain true to some purist position even at the cost of making the list inefficient and unwieldy. Document explaining the reasons not to use Reply-to: headers: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Response to that document: http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml ___/ / __/ / ____/ Ed Leafe Linux Love: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep