Date   : Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:19:48 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Mailing list headers (was: BBC Master 128 problem)

>Message-ID: <45DB5075.8070009@...>
 
Tim Fardell <tim.fardell@...> wrote:
> Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> > That's only possible if the /message/ has two 'reply' headers,
> > 'From:' and 'Reply-To:'. The email client can't give the user the
> > option of who to reply to if there isn't more than one source
> > specified.
> 
> No, it works with any message with multiple recipients, Shirley?
> "Reply" replies to the "From:" address (or "Reply-To" if it is set),
> while "Reply to All" replies to the "From:" address and everyone in
> the "To:" and "CC:" fields as well.
 
So, that still makes no sense.
 
I had to actually go into work and visually check some other email
programs to see what this mythical "reply all" was. The results
are at http://mdfs.net/Software/Comms/Replies
 
This first image is a sample mailing list message. You can see
there is a "reply to all" button. I must admit I have never
consiously seen this before. It's just not something that I have
ever expected to want to look for.
 
Also shown is the full headers from that message. You can see that
it correctly says: