Date   : Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:47:18 +0000
From   : adsb@... (Andrew Benham)
Subject: Mailing list headers (was: BBC Master 128 problem)

Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:

> When a list subscriber
> receives a list post from "Fred", they are /not/ receiving an
> email from Fred, they are receiving an email from the list server.

That's why the headers say:
     From: jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
right ?

> But the crux of the matter is that for a user to have a choice of
> who/how to reply, the server must provide a choice. If the headers
> say:
> --  From: Fred Bloggs <fred@...>
> --  Reply-To: Fred Bloggs <fred@...>
>  
> then it doesn't matter how sophisticated the user's email client
> it. There is only one return address!

The headers also say:

   --  To: bbc-micro@...

so, assuming one knows how to use ones email client, one can use
"Reply to all" rather than "Reply to sender" to send the email
reply to the list.


To quote from http://www.karnaugh.za.net/show?id 6:

"""The argument about "user effort" is simply stupid. If you are
incapable  of understanding that your MUA has two buttons "Reply"
and "Reply All" and which one to click, you should at this point
switch off your computer. It will be a cold day in hell before user
laziness is a good reason for standards incompliance. If someone
managed to subscribe to a list, they can damn well learn how to use
it properly. If it were a list where the topic of discussion was
sewing, this could be understandable, but often this is not the case.
"""

-- 
Andrew Benham         adsb@...       
Southgate, London N14, United Kingdom

The gates in my computer are AND OR and NOT, not "Bill"