Re: Reply to header

[John Davidorff Pell]

Ok, this is the third e-mail that I have sent in reply to this thread, 
each one complicated (in a different way) by the lack of a reply-to 
header.

The first one, I took the time to make sure that when I replied to Tom, 
my message got sent to the list.

The second one, after realising that the first had bounced because I 
sent it from the wrong address, I replied again... forgetting to add 
the list as a recipient.

This one, finally, I am using the reply-all command, so two people, who 
I know are subscribers to the list, are going to receive two copies of 
this e-mail... because I do not have a command to reply-only-to-list 
(which is what reply-to would do).
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I vote for adding the header. It does make it a little easier for those 
of us whose mail client doesn't do our dishes as well. (That is me 
bashing mutt, not because it is not a great mail client, but because 
the people who use it tend to worship it and declare that all other 
mail clients are evil and worthless.)

JP

On 3 Nov 2004, at 11:59, Tom von Schwerdtner wrote:

>  On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 14:53 -0800, Buddy Burden wrote:
> >  David,
> >
> > >   Double replies occur only, if the author is a subscriber.
> > >
> > >   So on lists, where anyone can post ( like LKML ) , Reply-To:
> > >   would be bad ( becuase the original author would not get a reply,
> > >   unless you add him manually ).
> > >
> > >   On lists, where only subscribers can post, Reply-To: might be good.
> >
> >  Fair enough.  Which type are we ?
>
>
>  Subscribers only.  This should probably be advertised somewhere.
>
>
>
> > Personally, sending an email to a list I wasn't subscribed to would
> > never even occur to me.  It would be like posting to a newsgroup I 
> > never
> > read: roughly akin to shouting a question off the side of a cliff then
> > walking away.  But perhaps that's just me. :)
>
>
>  I have to admit it is a toss up.   I set this list to "subscribers 
> only" because I get enough spam as it is (some from open lists, which 
> I find especially annoying).  However it is sometimes annoying to have 
> to subscribe to a mailing list just to ask 1 question about the 
> subject matter.
>
>  Regards,
>  Tom


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