Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

[Dale Welch <mlist3@babbler.org>]

On Thursday 05 February 2004 10:12 am, Rico -mc- Gloeckner wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 05:58:59PM +0000, Joseph Jones wrote:
> > It really bugs me. I know this may seem unnecessary to some people, but
> > it wouldn't require much. All the other mailing lists I'm on set the
> > reply-to to the address of the mailing list, apart from this list.
>
> try google: 'reply-to harmful'
>

I find the reply-to being set to the list most preferable.  Most of the stuff 
written by the first thing i found on google under 'reply-to harmful' was 
really not well written and very obnoxious about claiming others are 
obnoxious. 

You have to consider who the majority of the people are and consider that most 
things should be answered back to the list.  Therefore a small extra action 
by the replyer if he wants to send it back to the original sender is 
preferred so that the new user will correctly reply back to the list.

I email lists for the purpose of having the response on the list.  The only 
time i find it appropriate to send back directly to sender is if you run the 
list like the sun solaris admin guys do....  everyone sends back to the 
poster and then the poster is required within three days to post a summary of 
what he was sent and what worked for him.  I loved that list. :-)

and if you want to claim you can use rules to re-write the headers to do what 
you want... then fine lets have it default to the standard of reply to the 
list and you set your favorite program to rewrite the headers to let you 
reply directly by default.   ;-)

Sorry for replying to what these days is almost a troll type question,

---dale

---it is ok to have no rules... 
   so long as everyone follows the rules