To whoever maintains this list

John Hornbeck hornbeck at freeshell.org
Thu Sep 23 01:32:27 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 11:16 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 18:11 -0400, Al Simcoe wrote:
> > On Sep 22, 2004, at 5:46 PM, Crispian Thorne wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to add a "Reply To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com"
> > > line in the headers?
> 
> > If I click on "Reply", I get the Author's address in the "To:" field.
> > So, I have to click on the "Reply to All" field , rather than
> > the "Reply" field.
> > 
> > Then delete the author's name in the To: field.
> > Then I have to move the list's address that
> > is in the "CC:"  field to the "TO:" field.
> 
> Seeing as Evolution is the standard ubuntu mail reader, something that
> fits in with that MUA would be fine. Right-click on the message and
> select "Reply to list".
> 
> However, this option does not appear in the icon bar at the top, and I
> don't know if it can be added.
> 
> I understand the Reply-To debate, and I elect to have my mailing lists
> mung the Reply-To header to refer back to themselves, only when I want
> to encourage discussions on the list.
> 
> I think that this -users list should encourage discussions :-) and
> therefore should set Reply-To to refer to itself. If Evolution could be
> fixed up to understand a user's preference for replying to a list in a
> "better" fashion, that would be best!
> 
> -jim
> 
> 

"Ctrl-l" will allow you to reply to list in Evolution.

John 




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