OT - Mailing list headers

Daniel Silverstone dsilvers at digital-scurf.org
Wed Oct 20 15:46:38 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 16:41 +0100, Andy Main wrote:
> This is a bit off topic I know, but I've done it three times now!  I am
> so used to having the reply to address being the mailing list not the
> original person that I always forget to click reply-all.

Don't use reply-all anyway; use reply to list (control+L)

> IMHO I think this is the better way as it keeps conversations on list
> and prevents duplicate messages in someone's inbox (yes I know this can
> be considered an advantage in some cases if you don't want it filtered
> but still..).

Aye, reply-to-list is what you want

> Anyway, just a request, please don't flame me for asking!

It's just that there's a whole raft of good reasons not to break the
reply-to header. Evolution has a reply-to-list feature for a very good
reason :-)

(Google can find you these reasons if you care)

D.

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