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On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 05:21 PM, Ken Williams wrote:

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 07:34  AM, Heather Madrone wrote:

Administrivia question: I'm getting a lot of duplicate responsese
because the Reply-to on the list is set to sender. On moderated
lists, this can be a good idea because the approval cycle causes
a lag between posting and mail reflection.

Is the Reply-to merely a hint that we should consider taking topics
offline, or is there some reason I should be leaving redundant addresses
in the headers?
The extra copies are more for your convenience - I appreciate when people send them to me, because one copy goes to my list mailbox and the other goes to my inbox. The one in my inbox will be read faster.

I wish there were a standard way to indicate in your own mail headers "I do/don't wish to receive a direct copy of replies to this message." This can be done on usenet pretty effectively, but not really in email lists.


There is the Mail-Follow-Up-To header, unfortunately AFAIK mutt [1] is the only client to respect it, or provide methods to set it according to your preference.


FWIW, I object to reply to munging [2]

Michael

[1] http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html#followup_to
[2] http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
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