Not setting Reply-To: affects me this way ...

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_armigeron.com>
Date: Thu Feb 3 15:59:35 2000

  I just realized another annoyance I'm encountering because of the lack of
Reply-To---I now have to search for mail I've sent.

  I use elm. I've been using elm since 1989 and I have no plans to change
that any time soon (I've tried pine and I don't care for it). One setting I
have enabled on elm is saving all email I send out. Such email is stored
based upon the email address being sent to. Since a group reply places the
list address in the Cc: line, the email is still stored, but not under the
classiccmp folder (file actually), but a different folder.

  So now I have to search (grep) through 231 (at of right now) folders for
messages I send to classiccmp. That also means when I want to save a
particular message it won't be stuffed under the classiccmp folder by
default (I'm used to hitting 's-enter' and now that does The Wrong Thing).

  But majordomo (or any mailing list software) is still RFC-822 compliant
even if it does set the Reply-To: field and it seems to me that the
annoyance having to do a 'group' reply outweighs the benefit of `reply'
going to the list.

  So, what exactly, is the problem (really, no hypothetical pathological
cases here) of setting the Reply-To: field?

  -spc (Yes, I should clean out my folders ... )
Received on Thu Feb 03 2000 - 15:59:35 GMT