Re: Reply To Field in emails
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:36:04PM +0530, Sharninder wrote:
> >
> > It's not that way on the NANOG list that I'm on.
> >
> > Couldn't you just use the Reply-All and then the list will be
> > included in the Cc: address?
> >
>
> i used reply all on this mail ... the CC: now had the list
> address,my address and the to still had the original poster's
> address. The linux-india-* mailing lists that i am on are on mailman
> at sourceforge ... there i only do a reply and the to field has the
> list address linux-india-help@lists.sourc....Is this some fault
> (feauture !!) in the list management software
> used at lists.debian.org
Actually, Reply should really be a menu option (like it is in the Exmh
program) rather than a function. Sometimes you want to reply to the
From: and CC: only (commonly known as Reply-All) and sometimes you want
to respond only to the CC'd people and sometimes you want to reply just
to the sender.
Each individual will have their sense of what is "right" and which ones
are more common (for me, it is more common to only reply to those CC'd
-- sometimes known as a list reply). A good mail client will let you
customise.
Unfortunately not everyone uses a reasonably mail client - my
recommendation would be for you to fill in the Reply-To field with your
preference.
Another field to use is Mail-Followup-To but too many clients make it
extremely tedious to override the senders choice -- hence why setting
Reply-To yourself should be preferred.
Regards,
Anand
--
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When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never
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