On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Steve Lamb wrote: > Tony Finch wrote: > > If you want people to send replies to the list, use the Reply-To: header. > > It's called common sense. We're both on the list. It's clear we're on the > list. There's no need to duplicate traffic as well as annoy the other people.
Steve, Please take it easy. The issue of whether to CC or not to CC is in fact a controversial one. There have been several flame wars on the RFC 822 list. Please do not let another one start here. You may not believe it, but there *are* people in the world who *do* want personal CCs of replies to their list postings. (One prominent poster on the 822 list files them separately, and he wants to get both copies. He mutters when people do not cc him.) This is an area where one tends to get damned whatever you do. There was a recent long discussion about Reply-To: and proposed new headers such as Mail-Followup-To: that might do a better job. The trouble is that there are many scenarios (e.g. one message posted to multiple lists and also cc'd to several people) where the new proposals just don't work well enough in enough common cases. All we have at the moment is Reply-To. The best advice is for people who do not want cc's to set it to the list. Most of the time that is likely to achieve what they want. But sometimes, depending on the particular clients, the "reply" buttons/keys they provide, and their exact interpretation of "Reply-to", it doesn't. You just have to live with that. I refer you to the archives of [email protected] if you want to see past discussions. The most recent was only a few months ago. > But, as you wish, reply-to set. That was childish (setting it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony's address). Please try to keep this (very busy) list at a reasonable level of behaviour. Philip -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714. Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
