Ian Bell ian@redtommo.com writes:
On Friday 30 May 2003 5:46 pm, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
You seem to want "reply" to send a message to the list, rather than the author.
Exactly. That's what all the other mail lists that I belong to do.
But completely unlike any other kind of mail message you receive, and completely unlike news messages.
I am asking for consistency amongst mail groups. I have not burning preference to hit reply rather than reply all. I just want to do the same thing whether I am replying to ALUG or any other mail group.
So always hit "followup" or "reply to all" rather than "reply", and remove any list members from the recipient fields. Easy.
Thirdly what you're asking for would be impossible to do correctly even if it was a sensible thing to do - what should the list manager do if there is already a Reply-To field on a message sent to the list?
I do not know, but there are large numbers of mail lists that manage somehow.
I don't believe you. These lists will screw up whenever a poster uses a Reply-To field because there is no possible correct thing that they can do. If you disagree, just state what it is.