Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 12/13/02 at 02:00: > Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-12 23:57:48 -0500]: > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:56:23PM -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > > > If you really want people to reply on-list your should add a Reply-To > > > header that contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] to your > > > outbound messages. Note this is not "Reply-To munging" since it is done at > > > the mail *client* side (ie by the author) not by the list. > > I disagree in principle. But by the technicality that you say that it > is added by the original author it might just barely scrape by. At > least the author is "asking for it" when bad things happen. > > But it still has the same problem as the list software setting it. A > problem is a problem no matter how you sugar coat it. (The problem > being that someone tries to send a private reply and instead > mistakenly sends to the entire list. I have seen that repeatedly and > it is a real problem.)
Yes. However, 90+% of the time, you want the reply to be public; that's why you're on a public mailing list, no? So why set the defaults to cater to a special case, in stead of the majority case? > Feel free to try it with this message. Start a reply to me privately > with a test comment. You don't need to actually send it. In fact it > is better that you don't. Otherwise you might be embarrassed to see > your message sent back to the list instead of as a private reply back > to the author. But you can see by looking at the address when you > attempt to reply that it does not go to me but is back to the list. Good. :-) If I want it to be to just you, it's not so hard to change the TO: line. I've done it often. > setting reply-to back to the list is a bad thing. So we disagree. Fair enough. -- PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Member, LEAF Project <http://leaf.sourceforge.net> AIM: MikeLeone Public Key - <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.asc> Registered Linux user# 201348 Boom diddy diddy, Boom diddy do Queen
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