And *I* prefer the opposite :) Mainly because changing Reply-To: overwrites any Reply-To: that the original author had. I'd rather have the choice and hit either R or F as appropriate, and possibly send someone an extra copy of the message, than risk a situation where I can't reply to the author at all.
Furthermore, with the munging you can't tell the difference between reply-to-author and reply-to-list at all; thus it is easy to reply to the list by accident, potentially posting information you only meant to send to the author individually.
For a quite long rant *against* reply-to munging, check out:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
I guess not everyone will be happy until there is a special mail header that specifies the address to reply to address for the mailing list the message is on, if any. I believe there is such a header proposed (Followup-to: ?) and implemented in certain mail readers, but I can't find a reference at the moment....
Lex
Jarvis, Robert P. writes:
For what it's worth I prefer lists which default to replying to the list. 99+% of the time I want my replies to go to the list, and it's a real aggravation to have to remember to change the 'To:' line.
Bob Jarvis The Timken Company
-----Original Message----- From: Bijan Parsia [SMTP:bparsia@email.unc.edu] Sent: Monday, June 29, 1998 12:43 PM To: squeak@cs.uiuc.edu Subject: Re: REQUEST: Polling PWS Use
Whoops, that was supposed to go to Mark, not the list.
<sigh> The PWS list defaults replying to the author, and the Squeak list defaults replying to the list. Any hope that we can have them synched in this respect?
Cheers, Bijan Parsia.
At 5:34 AM -0400 6/30/98, Lex Spoon wrote:
And *I* prefer the opposite :) Mainly because changing Reply-To: overwrites any Reply-To: that the original author had. I'd rather have the choice and hit either R or F as appropriate, and possibly send someone an extra copy of the message, than risk a situation where I can't reply to the author at all.
Jarvis, Robert P. writes:
For what it's worth I prefer lists which default to replying to the list. 99+% of the time I want my replies to go to the list, and it's a real aggravation to have to remember to change the 'To:' line.
Bob Jarvis The Timken Company
Yes, yes, yes. I've been bit *both* ways. I'd prefer to be bit only one way so that I can develop simple habits not dependant on discriminating between messages with roughly the same header sent to two closely allied lists with different reply-to behavoir ;).
Let's end the thread! It started with a mistake anyway.
Cheers, Bijan Parsia.
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