[antlr-interest] mailing list reply-to address
Anthony W. Youngman
antlr at thewolery.demon.co.uk
Wed Mar 28 12:19:58 PDT 2007
In message <5196DCFC-6195-4534-AD14-B0D113C07CCF at latencyzero.com>, Rick
Mann <rmann at latencyzero.com> writes
>
>On Mar 7, 2007, at 23:45 , Gavin Lambert wrote:
>
>> Like it says, though, all mailers have both a Reply and a Reply To
>>All button. Without rewriting the Reply-To header, both buttons do
>>what they say, and I can choose whether I want to send a private
>>reply or a public reply with ease. If the list rewrites the header,
>>both buttons do exactly the same thing and I've lost the option to
>>send a private reply (without tweaking the headers manually).
>>Thereby removing functionality, which is a bad thing.
>
>The From: address can still be the poster's address. Reply-To is easy,
>reply-to-all is harder. You can still reply only to the poster: you
>reply to all and edit, just as you must do today to reply only to the
>list. This makes it easier to reply to the list (the typical
>behavior), but still allows replying to the poster. Furthermore, it
>reduces the number of duplicate emails received; a reply to the list
>(the most desired action) goes to one address, while reply-to-all goes
>to all addresses (without editing).
>
I see you're mailing from an Apple ... If "reply-to" is specified,
LookOut WILL NOT do a reply-to-all. Both "reply" and "reply to all" will
ONLY reply to the "reply-to", ie the list.
Cheers,
Wol
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Anthony W. Youngman - anthony at thewolery.demon.co.uk
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