On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 17:36 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Am 26. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Jeremy C. Reed so:
>
> > It is done by the individuals when responding. Sometimes both lists are
> > Cc'd but a Reply-To is used to encourage the replies to the correct list.
> >
> > But I see this list already sets a Reply-To -- hopefully it doesn't
> > override when it is set to something else. I will test now by setting the
> > Reply-To.
>
> The list stomped your Reply-To:.
>
> This brings up another issue that needs a solution before we can get to
> mucking w/ the reply-to.
>
> What MUA ( mail clients ) understand reply-to-author vs. reply-to-list vs.
> reply-to-all? mutt has different forms of reply commands. I don't know if
> other MUAs do as well. My experiences with mutt have not encouraged me to
> continue using it :(.
>
> We have the list configged to set its own Reply-To: because we want to
> encourage discussion. If most MUAs made it easy for people to choose to
> reply to the list we could dispense with that. Last I surveyed ( several
> years ago ) most MUAs did not do that.
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Evolution (2.02) can be painful. It shows reply, reply all and forward
buttons but no reply to list button. Lists that don't set the Reply-To:
(I will list some that I sub to that don't set Reply-To: below) - you
have to right-click the mail and select 'Reply to List' and of course,
I'm retarded and often forget and send message back to author of last
message rather than list. I am starting to 'Reply All' which when people
do that to me, sends me 2 copies which is extra confusing because I have
to be careful enough to locate the 'list' version to reply to the list.
This is an imperfect world we live in you know
Lists that I sub to that don't set Reply-To:
evolution@lists.ximian.com
linux-poweredge@dell.com
all lists at horde.org
ipcop-user@lists.sourceforge.net
openldap-software@openldap.org
whitebox-users@beau.org
but most of the lists I am on do set the Reply-To: including redhat's
lists.
It seems as though the more technical the content, the less likely they
are to set the Reply-To:
My preference is to keep it the way it is so that replies are directed
back to list unless intended otherwise.
Craig
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