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Re: Responses to the list (oops)



On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:20 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> 
> This is fine.  Notice how "reply to the list, but don't CC me" isn't 
> part of what "reasonable mailers" are expected to do:
> 
> "Reply-To munging does not benefit the user with a reasonable mailer. 
> People want to munge Reply-To headers to make "reply back to the list" 
> easy. But it already is easy. Reasonable mail programs have two separate 
> "reply" commands: one that replies directly to the author of a message, 
> and another that replies to the author plus all of the list recipients."

Exactly.

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