[antlr-interest] mailing list reply-to address

Gavin Lambert antlr at mirality.co.nz
Wed Mar 7 23:45:16 PST 2007


At 10:10 7/03/2007, Rick Mann wrote:
 >
 >Sadly, it's not. Most mailing lists send the reply to the
 >original poster, not the list. There's a long argument for
 >this behavior, that I disagree with:
 >http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

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.



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