Date   : Sat, 14 Jul 2001 01:40:19 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: List Admin (Was: VIKING COLLECTION DISC)

James Fidell <james@...> 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.
 
When the message only ever arrives with a From: header as it arrives as
mail, then "Reply To Sender" and "Reply To List" both do the same thing,
as there's only one source indicator.
 
With a Reply-To: line, then "Reply To Sender" knows it can use the From:
line and "Reply To List" knows it can use the Reply-To line.
 
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