Is something wrong with the group's mail software?

[Chris G]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 12:11:13PM -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> >> Yes, I use Thunderbird. This has only occurred a few times over the past
> >> few days, and never before, so I wasn't suspecting Thunderbird.
> >>
> >> What setting in their email client could a person make to cause this to
> >> happen when I reply to them?
> >>
> >> Later, Ray Parrish
> >>
> >> --
> >> Human reviewed index of links about the computer
> >> http://www.rayslinks.com
> >> Poetry from the mind of a Schizophrenic
> >> http://www.writingsoftheschizophrenic.com/
> >>
> >>
> > Perhaps when the OP sets  'Reply to" in his email?
> 
> This problem is because the Reply-To: header is being overridden.
> Really, the correct header for mailing lists is List-Post
> (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2369.html), which ubuntu-users does send.
> Problem is, barely any clients support this yet.
> 
> There is a Thunderbird extension
> (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/576) that is meant
> to provide Reply to List using List-Post though.
> 
... or use mutt which provides a L[ist Reply] command, you do have to
tell mutt what addresses are lists for this to work of course.  It
does work on all sorts of lists though and overcomes the problem being
discussed here.

-- 
Chris Green