On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:12:08AM -0700, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > If I understand you, there is no need to set your mail agent's reply-to > to the list.
Personally, I hardly ever set a Reply-To... > In fact, if you leave reply-to unset, all replies to mail > you send will be sent back to the address you are sending from, except > in such cases as the mailing lists, where replies ought to be > automatically sent to the list, not you. The list is a public forum, > not a private resource. I agree, but to me, the principle of "least surprise" works the other way round: If I hit "reply", I expect to reply to the sender, not the list - that's the way it always works. In my case, if I want to reply to the list, I hit "list-reply", not "reply". > If someone wants to make a private reply to a > mail on the list, it is incumbent upon them to reply only to the > individual, not incumbent upon everyone else to change the automatic > behavior everytime they wish to reply to the list. But the "Reply-To" header of the list does change the automatic behaviour - "reply" and "list-reply" now work the same, which would not be the case if Reply-To wasn't set at all... On second thought, I realize that I might be forgetting that there are too many mail clients that don't have "list-reply", which is a pity. Great functionality. > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette > http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to Thanks for the pointers! I admit I'm not convinced, but I see that I'm in a minority here, so I'll shut up now (and promise not to set "Reply-To"... ;-) ). Cheerio, Thomas P.S.: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker Duh - should've thought of that one... :-/ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!"
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