On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Doug Essinger-Hileman wrote:

> On 30 Jun 2003 at 21:23, Derick Rethans wrote:
> 
> > > I'm wondering why the listed "Reply To" address is not 
> > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 
> > > Thing would be so much easier to just reply than cut-n-paste when
> > > reply to the entire list on a subject (which is the norm).
> > 
> > That's an evil thing, and misusing e-mail. E-mail clients have the
> > "reply-all" function for this.
> 
> I disagree with you Derick. In many (most? all?) programs, the reply-
> all function will send an email back to the list **and** one to the 
> author. This wastes bandwidth needlessly, in my opinion. I receive 
> the messages to the list and do not need to receive a message sent 
> directly to me. 

You have procmail for that. There is some very good explanation for 
this, see 
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/faq/maillist.html#munge_reply-to

Derick


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