I believe there is a mistake in the settings.

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Thu Sep 10 14:45:16 BST 2009


Stephen wrote:

> Hello I am new here. I have been using Ubuntu for about 8 months to test
> it with windoze on the same box.
> 
> When I chose to reply button it is set to send the message to the
> original poster instead of the list. I think the list settings have been
> set wrong. They need to be change so the "Reply Settings" to the list.
> 
> All the other groups I belong to have the "reply to" address set to the
> list address.

Oh boy...

Yes, it's inconsistent.

No, it's not wrong.  Most computer-related lists do not set a Reply-To at 
all.  See: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html and 
http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html

-- 
derek





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