On Fri, Jul 19, 2013, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Every email list I've ever been on has had reply-to-list as the > default. Why would you participate in a mailing list and not want > replies sent to the... list? Makes no sense.
Interesting -- even before the various lists I've been started changing their policies around a decade ago, I'd say that at least half the lists I've been on were not reply-to list. As for why, aside from the issue about boo-boos with intended private messages, it's a way to control list volume. Another reason is that some mailing lists have restricted access and anyone not on the list participating in the conversation needs to be cc'd, and the Reply-To header mucks with that. Finally, some wankers have religion about Holy Computers and believe that Reply-To is a sacrilege; I'm not in that category. ;-) http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
