I believe there is a mistake in the settings.

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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 
>   
Funny how the majority of Ubuntu lists defy that...hmm...even the Centos 
list does too.

> all.  See: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html and 
>   
Aw, I feel bad for the guy. He forgot he was participating in a public 
forum.

> http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html
>
>   


Okay. Reply-To: set by AUTHOR not mailing list software. Mailing list 
software should use List-Post:


Fair enough. The deficiency is in thunderbird then. Maybe I should 
switch to Kmail...