Reply-to in Ubuntu Users List

[Fabio Mora]

Ed Fletcher wrote:

> 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

I think that we could put some pressure over thunderbird's developer to 
implement a "reply-to-list" feature

;o)