On Saturday 31 May 2003 1:21 pm, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
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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.
At last a sensible suggestion and one i can actually do. OK it will be a bit awkward to start with but at least I'll be able to do the same thing irrespective of the lst. And after a while it will be second nature. Thanks for that Richard.
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.
OK. I assume lists check the From: field for a valid email address i.e one that is subscribed to the list. So set From: to From. Set to: to recipient and Reply-to: to list and discard the senders Reply-to field.
Ian