On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Jonathan Berry wrote: > I prefer to get the personal email since it makes it easier to tell > when someone has replied to my message. I guess you woun't see this message as I'll remove your address from the receipent list and retain just the list address :) > I am on another list that does not do the Reply-To spoofing, and I > like this much better. Yeah - I subscribe to one such list - and I hate this default behavior. > To reply to the email, you use the Reply to All option and the email > goes to the list and the author. I don't think this would work very > well with as many "newbies" as there are, and no doubt there would > be many emails not sent to the list that were meant to be (by > experienced users as well as newbies, I'm sure). I don't want to > start a flame war, just pointing out that there are alternatives. <feeding the flamewar> In mailing lists - (for both newbees & experienced users) - the 99% of the replies should be back to the list - so my belief is - modifying the 'reply-to' by the list is the correct thing. (I guess fedora-list should strip off previous 'reply-to' - and avoid this gmail fiasco - there are some individual users - who also set reply-to field as well) For the remaining 1% replies - where the reply shouldn't go to the list - there should be an additional feature in the e-mail client 'reply-to-author' which ignores the 'reply-to' field - and just replies to the 'from:author' filed. All the docs on the web which claim 'reply-to' is evil ignore this simple fact (optimize for common use) - and grumble - I can't reply-to-author - so 'reply-to' is evil. For the 1% case - I'll sugest - just emulate that behavior by using 'forward function' & copy/paste the address. Satish
