On Thursday 06 December 2007 02:05:59 King InuYasha wrote: > I have noticed some unusual behavior in the wine-devel mailing list > compared to others (e.g. fedora's, etc.). Wine's wine-devel mailing > list does not automatically set the reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Why is that? If other mailing lists do so, how come Wine's doesn't? > Personally, I find myself making a mistake sometimes and not adding in > the wine-devel part because I am used to seeing it automatically set. > If I remember how emails are set up, isn't there a hidden field called > reply-to? AFAICT, other mailing lists either override or rewrite this > field and replace it with the email address of the mailing list.
The reason is explained in http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html In short, the downside to only replying to the author by accident is pretty small compared to mistakenly replying to the whole list with something intended just for the author. Cheers, Kai -- Kai Blin WorldForge developer http://www.worldforge.org/ Wine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin Samba team member http://www.samba.org/samba/team/ -- Will code for cotton.
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