Netiquette request to all

Jim C. Brown jma5 "at" umd.edu
Fri Feb 10 16:49:30 2006


On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 05:06:02PM +0100, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote:
> BTW. Is it possible to change the configuration of the mail server serving
> the list to include "Reply-To:" header with a list address? This is a common
> practice on almost all mailing lists - it ensures that a reply automatically
> goes to the list address, and not to the original poster only. I have to
> manually change the "To:" address every time I reply...

I'd rather not have this done.

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

Of course, that wouldn't affect me as much, as I've already programmed my
client to explicitly ignore Reply-To: if the value is the same as To:

BTW, Jaroslaw, it appears that you are using the ELM mailer. In which case, you
can just press 'g' instead of 'r' in order to send the reply to this mailing list.
(That's what the reply-to-group command is for.)

> Regards,
>    Jaroslaw Rafa
>    raj "at" ap.krakow.pl
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