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[Tim Schmidt]

All of Yahoo Groups are reply-to-list.

--tim


On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 01:53:29 +0100, Martin Schmitz <ubuntu at zangpo.org> wrote:
> CB schrieb:
> > Simon Ekstrand wrote:
> >>My only reply in this semi-religious thread.
> >>http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> >
> > You know, I've never even seen this discussed on a list where reply-to
> > was rewritten back to the list. The fact that it only comes up in this
> > list rather suggests to me that it's not 'religious' (ideologues tend to
> > like to hear their own voice on their beloved topic  whereever
> > possible!), but just a matter of practical annoyance.
> 
> This is really funny. I'm subscribed to a lot of mailing lists for
> years, mostly about technical things like using software or developing
> operating systems and such things, but also lists that announces parties
> in my town and other stuff like that.
> 
> I have never ever seen a mailing list, where the list software adds or
> changes the Reply-To header! It would be a really, really stupid thing
> in my opinion. What if I want replays to an other address than the one
> I'm subscribed with? Besides all the other problems described in the
> document above. And nowhere other than here I have ever seen people
> asking for the Reply-To header to be set.
> 
> The fact that *you* set Reply-To to the list on your decision is even
> much more stupid - and very *impolite* also! If I'd wanted to send you a
> private mail I would see my writing on the list surprisingly!
> 
> > I gave the article a very quick read, so I might have missed something,
> > but it looks to me like the biggest mistake that the author is making is
> > to assume that default list-answering behaviour is to   reply to
> > original poster as well as the list. I doubt if many people want this. I
> > certainly don't (as sender or recipient).
> 
> Therefor most modern mailers offer a third reply function:
> reply-to-list. Either you have to configure once which folder holds
> which mailinglist or the mailer itself interprets headers like
> Mailinglist, Mailing-List, List-ID and so on. The result is that i can
> choose (The keybinding examples are taken from Gnus):
> 
> r - reply to author   - sends a reply only to the address of the
>                         original author of the message, either taken
>                         from 'From:' or - if present - from 'Reply-To:'.
> 
> w - wide replay       - as above, but also sends the replay to all
>                         addresses that appear in To: and CC:
> 
> f - followup (to the  - Sends the reply to the configured mailing list
>     list), also known   (or the one taken from the headers of the mail,
>     as 'list-reply'.    depends on your software).
> 
> Even Squirrelmail(!) does have this ability (but - unfortunatly -
> mozilla doesn't - the only modern mailer I know which don't know about
> list-reply).
> 
> Got the point? If I hit 'r' I want to send a personal, private email to
> *you*. Directing this to the mailing list (really surprinsingly in your
> case as it's not the default behaviour of this list!) is a really,
> really bad thing. Please don't do it anymore!
> 
> Martin
> 
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