On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:44:00AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > I agree with you and have been saying so for years. But even the Mailman > software suggest replies go to the individual instead of the list. So much > for> collaboration.
Mailman might be relying on the faint hope that mail user agents actually used the List-Post header for a "reply-to-list" function. Mailman doesn't prevent that. What mailman is suggesting is that you not set the Reply-To header to the list. The reason for that is because if list participants have already set the Reply-To, a new Reply-To set by the list overwrites the original mailer's Reply-To, and information is thereby lost. My mail user agent (mutt) binds the "l" key to "reply-to-list", so that when I want to reply just to the list, as in this case, I can. Part of the reason I continue to use mutt on my Mac, despite some inconveniences I've experienced under OS X 10.5, is this list-reply feature, which I find very helpful (and which Apple Mail doesn't provide). I suspect we're well off-topic for this list now, however, so I'll shut up. A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com Shinkuro, Inc.
