OT: reply-to essay

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Thu Sep 14 02:37:50 2000

On Sep 13, 17:08, Joe wrote:
> At 10:50 AM 9/13/00 -0500, you wrote:

> >In Eudora 4.3, when I hit reply, I get:
> >
> > At 02:59 PM 9/12/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >and when I hit Reply to All, I get:
> >
> > At 02:59 PM 9/12/00 -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> >
> >which I like better, but it's addressed to classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
twice.
> >
> >- John
> >
>
> I have Eudora 3.0.1 and it does the same thing. I wonder why?

Probably because in many systems like Eudora, "reply to all" replies to all
the addresses in the "To:" line and the sender. The "Reply-to:" takes
precedence over the "From:" and is set to "classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org", and
the "To:" was also set to "classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org", it gets sent twice,
and Eudora is too dumb to scan for duplicates.


-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Thu Sep 14 2000 - 02:37:50 BST

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