List etiquette

Sridhar Dhanapalan sridhar at dhanapalan.com
Sat Jun 17 02:13:08 BST 2006


On Saturday 17 June 2006 10:59, Andrew <andrew at swinndesign.com> wrote:
> Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > Can everyone please remove their 'Reply-To' headers from their messages?
> > Every time I hit the 'Reply' button in my mail client, I have to manually
> > delete the address in the 'To' field and add the
> > ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com list address. Replies should go to the list by
> > default, not directly to the author (you can CC the author as well if you
> > like).
>
> I believed this to be a problem with the list software setup. I have
> seen other people have the same problem. I too also have to manually
> insert the list address.

It's a "Reply-To" header 'feature'. Notice how it only occurs with some 
messages. Examine their source and you'll see a "Reply-To" header.

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