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 -- "Interpreting what the GPL actually means is a job best left to those that read the future by examining animal entrails." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ International PHP Magazine http://php-mag.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php