Date   : Thu, 02 Aug 2001 10:54:55 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: List Admin (Was: VIKING COLLECTION DISC)

In article <010731035132@...>, Jonathan Graham Harston
<jgh@...> writes

>Nowadays, most people appear to blindly hit "reply" in some manner or
>other without thinking, so it makes a sort of sense for a mailing lists to
>provide a Reply-To: header that specifies the most appropriate destination
>for a response to a mailing list message to go to.  For the BBC mailing
>list this would be to the mailing list itself.

The headers of your message as received here included the following:

X-From_: owner-bbc-micro@... Tue Jul 31 03:55:54 2001
From: jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Sender: owner-bbc-micro@...

but no Reply-To header.

>With a From: header and a Reply-To: header, there really should be two
>actions: "Reply to author" and "Reply to all/group/list/etc."  There
>shouldn't be any function simply labelled "Reply".

Agreed.

The mail/news client I use, Turnpike, has a useful pseudo-newsgroup
feature where mailing lists can be conveniently collected in a
newsgroup-like manner and threaded.  It is also intelligent enough to
offer the option between "reply to list" or "reply to author" where
doubt exists.

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