[SC.LUG] Reply-to -- was: Re: Internet Connectivity

[Richard Smedley]

Hello Paul,

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 16:18 +0100, Paul Sinclair wrote:
> Thank you Richard this eventually solved my problem. Firefox was  
> choosy about which sites it would connect to.
<snip>
> So thank you again.

No problem - glad to help :)

> I had a problem replying to this list which I think has come up
before. 
> Reply gave Richard's address and Reply All added the list.
> Do I need to do something in Thunderbird?

This is correct reply-to behaviour for a list. In Mutt just hit L 
for list reply. In most clients, right-click and `L'

Many lists overwrite the reply-to header so that replies automatically
go to the list. As well as causing embarrassment when a private reply
is accidentally sent to the list (something we have all done ;)  It
breaks the Reply-to that many people set when they send from one
particular SMTP server, but wish to receive at another address.

Although this list exhibits the correct behaviour, so many do not
that one comes to expect reply-to overwrite from the list :-/
Like top-posting, binary attachments, and all the other ills of
the modern Internet, I suspect there's no answer that will satisfy
everyone :-/

Regards,

 - Richard