Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Saturday 12 June 2010, Jerry wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:40:28 -0400 >> >> Jean-David Beyer <jeandav...@verizon.net> articulated: >>> I see no way to do that. I have a Reply button and a Reply All >>> button and no others. There is no such button on that screen that >>> allows diddling buttons. Thunderbird 2.0.0.16, which is the latest >>> for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. >> Unfortunately, it might prove to be academic anyway. Unlike several >> other lists that I am subscribed to, this mailing list does not use a >> "Reply-To:" in the e-mail headers. It would definitely facilitate >> replying to list mail if the maintainer(s) of this list configured >> the mailer to insert such a header that pointed to this list. > > There is such a header: > List-Post: <mailto:gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
So there is. > > Reply-to is intended to be used by the sender to state his preference > for replies. If he prefers off-list replies then he should set it to his > address and if he prefers on-list replies then he should set it to the > mailing list address. (In fact, there's also the Mail-followup-to header > which is even better suited for this than the Reply-to header.) > > IMNSHO, it's not up to the mailing list admins to dictate where replies > to my posts should go. Therefore, the mailing list software should not > touch the Reply-to header. > OK. > >> Conversely, many MUAs support the "reply to list" function that >> should work correctly on this list. Perhaps so, but my Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 dies not, and it is the latest version available in .rpm for my distribution (RHEL 5.5). I hear Thunderbird 3 does have something like this. > > Exactly. It works correctly because those MUAs use the above mentioned > standardized (RFC 2369) List-Post header. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 07:00:01 up 37 days, 14:55, 3 users, load average: 5.59, 4.62, 4.33
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