Reply-to in Ubuntu Users List

[Ed Fletcher]

Fabio Mora wrote:
> Ed Fletcher wrote:
> 
>> I've noticed that when I reply to a message on this list, Thunderbird 
>> picks up the Reply-to header and uses that to determine who to send 
>> the message to.  This is usually the author of the message I'm 
>> replying to.   All well and good. Except that I most often want to 
>> reply to the list rather than to the sender.  Can the list management 
>> settings be changed to strip Reply-to headers and replace them with 
>> Reply-to: <list-address>?
>>
>> This would save everyone from having to hit Reply-to-all and deleting 
>> the previous author's address.  The other Linux mailing lists I on 
>> already have this feature enabled.
>>
>> Thanks to all for a great distribution and a _very_ active and 
>> informative discussion/mailing list,
>> Ed
> 
> 
> read this:
> 
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> 
> fab'

OK, I've read it.  I can't say that I agree with the author of that 
page.  I have no problem with my list replys automatically going to the 
list.  As it is, I use Reply-to-all and delete the non-list address.  I 
could let it go without doing that but you'd get two copies of the same 
message.  Where's the benefit in that?  I still feel that setting the 
Reply-to header to the list address is a good idea.  However, different 
people will have different ideas on this.

Ed
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