On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:38:32PM +0200, Dr.Ruud wrote: > Rance Hall schreef: > > > There is no indication of this behavior on any of the welcome pages > > and no suggestion that this list behaves differently than any others. > > Most technical mailing lists do it the right way. They might insert a > Mail-Followup-To: header field (but only if there isn't one already) > pointing to the list. > > Mail clients should be able to handle reply-to-list (or "follow-up") as > well as reply-to-sender (or "reply-to-author").
They should also allow one to use the same command for lists as for individuals, perhaps by defaulting to "list-reply" if it exists, then degrading gracefully to a more mundane author reply if it does not -- or at least allowing the user to configure it for that behavior. I'm using Mutt, one of the few MUAs that actually has an easily accessible list-reply capability, and I'm still not finding any configuration option that would allow one command to degrade gracefully from a list-reply to a standard reply that way. In other words, I don't think blaming choice of mail client or mail user agent helps anything, especially since in many cases work conditions may dictate one's choice of client or MUA. -- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ] "The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do." - McCloctnick the Lucid -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
