OT: reply-to essay

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu Sep 14 09:48:38 2000

At 07:37 AM 9/14/00 GMT, Peter wrote:
>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.
>
   You're probably correct but the price was right :-)

   Joe
Received on Thu Sep 14 2000 - 09:48:38 BST