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[Ed Fletcher]

Simon Ekstrand wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:59:20PM +0100, kloschi at subsignal.org wrote:
> 
>>As I encoutered this at least twice, I'd like
>>to request a change in that:
>>This list has not a default reply-to list set.
>>That very unusual to me.
>>If it is because of decission, I'd like to know
>>why. If not, could someone please change?
> 
> 
> My only reply in this semi-religious thread.
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> 

I hesitate to jump into this.  But I feel quite strongly that the list 
should be set to Reply-To list.  Absolutely every other mailing list I'm 
on works this way and I've never seen a negative result from it.  The 
only potential downside seems to be that non-members do not see replies. 
  Well, the standard on mailing lists is that non-members cannot post 
anyway to keep out the spam.  So anyone who wants to post should join 
the list and then they will get all the replies.

I use the Thunderbird E-Mail client.  It does not have a Reply-To-List 
function.  I used Eudora for years, that didn't have it.  Evolution 
doesn't.  I suspect that none of the Netscape/Mozilla mail clients have 
Reply-To-List.  I use Outlook at work (no choice) and that doesn't have 
it.  That probably covers ninety or ninety-five percent of all the users 
of this mailing list.  It seems unreasonable to ask everyone to switch 
clients just to help out the small minority that do not want to subscribe.

Reply-To-All means that I will get the same message twice when someone 
sends an answer.  I do not need to get it twice.  I just have to delete 
another e-mail when that happens.  I do that often enough with spam that 
it is a pain even though it doesn't take long.

As it stands, when I respond to a message, I have to do a couple of 
extra steps by selecting Reply-To-All and then deleting the line to the 
original author and changing the list address from Cc to To.  I do this 
because I don't want two copies and I'm assuming that most other 
subscribers feel the same way.

So please consider changing the list manager behavior to set Reply-To 
the list.

Just my 2 cents.

Ed
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Ed Fletcher
ed at fletcher.ca

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?  -  Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)