On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 05:37:49PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> If you just hit "reply", the message doesn't get cc'd to the list. So
> everyone just hits "reply all".
>
> What you want is for people to manually edit the to and cc lists, which
> just aint gonna happen.
>
> Maybe whoever is looking after the list these days should set the
> reply-to field... but then people who post but aren't subscribed are
> almost guaranteed to never receive the replies to their post.
I would find it extremely annoying to have Reply-To set by the mailing
list software. If individual posters set it, then that is okay, they
are conveying their reply preferences.
Reply-To munging considered harmful
<URL: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>
is what I usually trot out when this topic comes up.
Anand
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