Date   : Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:52:14 +0100 (BST)
From   : Michael McConnell <soruk@...>
Subject: Re: List Admin (Was: VIKING COLLECTION DISC)

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, James Fidell wrote:

> Quoting Jonathan Graham Harston (jgh@...):
>
> > Does anybody know who the list owner is?  I've tried making posts asking
> > if they can turn the ReplyTo line on ('cos I keep accidently sending my
> > replies direct to the post writer instead of to the list), but there never
> > seems to be a response.
>
> Historically (and I'm going back ten years or more here), it's generally
> been considered that not setting replies to go to the list was the right
> thing to do.  That's also my personal preference, since my mail client
> allows me to "reply to sender" or "reply to list" depending on which
> key I press to reply.  Setting a Reply-To header would break that
> functionality for anyone that uses it.
>
> That said, if the majority of the list readers wnat it, I'll set it up
> and filter my own e-mail to drop that header from my inbound mail from this
> list.

I'll place my vote: in favour of a Reply-To: header.

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