I believe there is a mistake in the settings.

Stephen stephen_o at rogers.com
Fri Sep 11 12:35:02 BST 2009


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 
> all.  See: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html and 
> http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html
>
>   
Thanks.

I didn't think of that having a reply to set could be harmful. It was a 
very informative read.

Stephen.

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