[Zope] Split the list again?

[Alexander Staubo]

I never figured this on out. There's nothing harmful about Reply-To.

The document you refer to tries to build an argument out of inserted
Reply-Tos modifying the standard behaviour of the "Reply" operation,
which is complete bs.

Non-fiddling with Reply-To is, imho, more harmful than not. How? Well,
for every follow-up I get, I also get one explicitly directed to my
email address, because people hit "Reply to all" and instead of having
their follow-up sent to just "zope@zope.org", they send it to
"alex@mop.no; zope@zope.org". Needless to say, for every follow-up I get
_two_ emails. To avoid having my inbox cluttered with redundant mail, I
filter everything into my Zope-list folders, but I still get two emails
for every follow-up. Madness! Common sense would tell you that 99% of
all replies go to the list -- that's the whole point. Why cater to the
1% where the followup is sent privately?

I'm on a lot of mailing lists, and Zope's are the only ones I've come
across that has not implemented the courtesy Reply-To fix. It's
incredibly, mindbendingly annoying.

--
Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: anthony@nextTelecom.com [mailto:anthony@nextTelecom.com]On Behalf
>Of Anthony Baxter
>Sent: 16. juni 1999 16:12
>To: Phillip Beazley
>Cc: zope@zope.org
>Subject: Re: [Zope] Split the list again?
>
>
>>>> Phillip Beazley wrote
>> Oh, and how about having the reply-to address of posts that of the
>> mailing list unless specified by the user?
>
>
>noooooooo. Bad, bad, bad, naughty. Don't fiddle the reply-to
>on mailing
>lists. I'm on some lists that do, some that don't - and the ones that
>do are _far_ more irritating to work with.
>
>see also: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
>
>Anthony
>
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