On Saturday 24 May 2003 05:59, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: >Hi, > >On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 03:53:44PM -0700, technomage wrote: >> I am using kmail in linux here, >> the reply to list (L) shows both the list and the author. > >IMHO that's a bug in the mail client. At least in mutt that > function is called reply-to-group (or reply-to-all).
It does reply to "all". If you want just the list, you have to take the authors return address out, and I often do, and have done so now. Now, there is an option in the properties of a folder, to set it as the home of a mailing list, which may possibly change this behaviour. I haven't explored it for effects. Well, maybe, but I see I had the posting address slightly wrong, I'd left out the www. >> I'm on quite a few other lists and they've often gone to the >> option of having "reply-to:" in their firlds because of the >> difficulties that not having it can cause with some clients. > >That has been discussed hundreds of times. There are no new > arguments. That's why I pointed to the archive. You may also find > some info by searching for "reply-to considered harmful". > >I don't really care this way or the other. If someone wants to > change the way the list operates, discuss that with the mailing > list operator David Mosberger <david.mosber...@acm.org>. > >It hasn't been changed the last five years so either he hasn't > been asked or doesn't like it :-) Changing it now would surprise everyone! :) >Bye, > Henning >_______________________________________________ >Sane-devel mailing list >sane-de...@www.mostang.com >http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
