FWIW, I'd like to reverse my answer, and now I agree with Oscar's 29 Jan
suggestion to make "Reply-to-tutor-list" the default.
Lately, several times a tutor had to forward to the list an email meant for
the list but sent to him only, by mistake. On the other hand, the
wrote-to-1-person-but-mistake
My personal opinion (with whatever limited weight that has on this list
since I've only answered a few questions - and probably half of them I've
accidentally only sent to the op)/how I read it is that RFC 2822 actually
allows lists to set reply-to header; by my view the list software is
forwarding
>
> To summarize existing opinions on this matter:
>
> http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/listreplyto.html
>
> You might want to familiarize yourself with existing literature on the
> matter before starting a new flame war.
Hmmm... False alarm?
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The page you've been trying to a
Oscar Benjamin writes:
> I have both sent and received messages on this list that went off-list
> by mistake. It's an easy mistake to make that you use reply instead of
> reply-all and then the message goes just to one person instead of the
> whole list.
>
> This problem is not unique to the pyth
El 29/01/2013, a las 04:14 a.m., Oscar Benjamin
escribió:
> I see the mailing list as being fundamentally a public message forum
> and only very occasionally send an off-list message.
> Often this means that the archives are incomplete, so that there is a
> thread but the part of the thread wher
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Oscar Benjamin
wrote:
> If you don't mind my asking, do you send many off-list messages as
> replies to on-list ones?
> Oscar
>
For this list, I have sent 1 public reply and 2 private replies (to thank
individual tutors). Both numbers are too small to have any sig
On 29 January 2013 03:35, DoanVietTrungAtGmail wrote:
> As a student user of this list, I prefer leaving the Reply-To field
> unchanged. I like the fact that this means a deliberate decision is
> required to send public emails.
If you don't mind my asking, do you send many off-list messages as
r
As a student user of this list, I prefer leaving the Reply-To field
unchanged. I like the fact that this means a deliberate decision is
required to send public emails.
Trung
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On 29/01/13 09:04, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
>
> One particular l
On 29/01/13 09:04, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
One particular list that I receive has recently made an administrative
change so that, from now on, all emails have the "Reply-To" header set
to the list address. This means that the default behaviour when
replying to a message is that the reply goes to t
