I've seen this debate on a lot of lists. I firmly believe having a list munge reply-to is almost universally a very bad idea (the main exception being very small lists of people who know each other).
Most email programs allow you to tell them the names of the lists you subscribe to, and/or can autodetect what the list name is from the appropriate headers, and give you an easy list-reply command. So you have your usual individual reply command, group reply / reply to all, and list reply. If you're annoyed by having to edit headers to reply to the list, then learn how to use your email program's list-reply command. Yes, sometimes someone accidentally replies to you and not the list. You write them back and ask, "did you mean to send this just to me, or to the list?" Mildly annoying, but either of you can send the message on to the list and the rest of the list members lose nothing. If you go the other way, though, the error case is that sometimes someone sends to the list a message they intended to be private. Not only does it increase list volume mostly with noise, but it occasionally leads to embarrassment, confusion, or breach of privacy. It makes all of the above more likely to happen accidentally, and when they do happen, there's no way to take it back. -- Cos -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
