regarding the reply address on the list.... (fwd)

From: Rich Lafferty <rich_at_alcor.concordia.ca>
Date: Thu Feb 3 08:59:53 2000

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 08:39:36AM -0500, Christian Fandt (cfandt_at_netsync.net) wrote:
>
[someone else wrote:]
> >I personally vote for the old way! I'm on quite a few different ML's and
> >only the DECnet/Linux one does it this way. It's more of a pain to have to
> >get the correct TO: with it set this way that the old way!

The "correct" headers are the ones which the sender of the message put
on his message.

> The URL posted by Philip (liste_at_artware.qc.ca) just previous to this msg (
> FYI: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html and titled '
> ''Reply-To'' Munging Considered Harmful' ) is clear on making it easy for
> you since you use Elm 2.5. Just hit "r" or "g" depending upon whether you
> intend the msg to be private or to the group.

For those that have noticed a bit of a flaw in their mail program
regarding this issue, I'll take a moment to point out that the MUA
That Sucks Less, 'mutt', offers not only reply and group-reply but
also list-reply. :-)

  -Rich

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