Subjects and Re: [Gllug] Reply-to header munging.

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On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:39:11PM +0100, Richard Cohen wrote:
> I like the current reply-to setting.  My preference is for discussion to
> stay on the list, in general, so you have to make a conscious decision to
> take a thread off the list.

Same here. I prefer reply-to munging - it makes replying to email easier.
When I reply to email, I don't conciously reply to the author - I reply
whence it came.  The number of times I've replied to a list only to find
I've replied to the author is innumerable. 

If it were any way, from a usability point of view there should be a button
for 'reply to author' - I don't find a group reply is useful, it encourages
mass CC:ing and generates more traffic.

Not munging reply-to is generally annoying, confuses people and for a list
such as this (where there are a number of new users at any one time, most of
whom will have no experience of such weird mail behaviour) I don't think
that's acceptable - I think it would generate a lot of complaints,
continuously.

See also http://www.metasystem.org/reply-to-useful.html :)

Cheers,

Alex.

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