On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:47:53 +0000, Craig Webster craig@xeriom.net wrote:
On 6 Feb 2006, at 22:32, sofar wrote:
Obviously the mailinglist admin made a well-based decision when he set up the lists, so I respect that decision. I don\'t think it should be up to me as a poster to decide where and how replies are sent.
That's the point of not setting the Reply-To: header to the list; the poster has the option to either reply to the poster or reply to all.
Check out http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html for more information.
well here's another thing that bothers me then:
in roundcube when I reply to a mailinglist post, I HAVE to remember to click 'reply-to-all'. (We can go into a discussion that this is silly as I don't want to reply to multiple people, because the mail came only from one address and was forwarded, hence it should go to either one of them, not just a random one)
If I don't clik 'reply-to-all' then I have no way to find out what the original mailinglist address was, because it's no longer displayed in one of the fields above the text you just typed. If I want to go back to the original mail, I have to close (save a draft - otherwise my text I typed is gone completely!) and retreive the mail address first. Then I can compose again, or hit reply-to-all, but like I said this is something that I don't do for any other mailinglist.
Oh yeah, BTW, the reply-er still has a choice of changing the addressees when the mailinglist sets the 'reply-to' header. It's called the "To:" field ("Recipient" in roundcube) and anyone can modify it.
Auke
but I'll skip that -