I'm afraid Ill have to drag out this again. Please read: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 1998 09:07:52 -0300 (ADT), Trevor Barrie wrote: > > >> No, the reply I thought went to the list didn't because this list does > >> not correctly set the reply-to field. > > >Seems to me it sets it right... ie, it leaves it how the original > >sender set it. Stepping on a user's header is a Bad Thing IMO. > > Incorrect. Many mailing lists, in fact, the grand majority that are run > properly, set the reply-to to the list. This is because a mailing list for > discussion among a group and replies should default back to the group without > a CC to the original poster. > > Without the reply-to field set the behavior for many clients is to either > reply to the user alone (which most people do not want, they want to reply to > the list) or reply to everyone to get the list. The problem with that is if > that trend continues a copy is sent to the list as well as copies to every > person who ever participated in a thread. Without the efforts of the > individuals in this thread alone we would be sending duplicates to a good 7-8 > members. If we are going to have private CC lists like that, what is the > point of having the list software to distribute the mail? In short, it is > bad form. > > The only thing that prevents both of those, automatically, is to set the > reply-to to the list. This means that people who want to reply to the list > (which is, IMHO, the default behavior outside of announce lists) can do so > easily, we're not constantly culling the CC: list of duplicate entries, and > for the rare case when people want to send a private message to the > individual of a particular message nearly all of the modern email clients on > a variety of platforms give the user the choice of which address to send to > with the reply-to as default. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
