gnupic: Re: [gnupic] Reply-to mangling
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] Reply-to mangling
From:
Greg Hill ####@####.####
Date:
17 Jul 2005 23:29:45 +0100
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0507171618170.11218@hillnet.us>
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Alex Holden wrote:
> Also the much talked about "reply to list" mail client feature (which
> would have allowed you to choose between replying publicly or privately
> with a single mouse click) hasn't been implemented in the vast majority
> of mail clients, so working around it by messing with reply-to in the
> list server is the next best thing.
I think that as the "non-techie" side of the 'net has grown, techie
features have vanished from most software. As an aside, I've been reading
mail in Pine for 7 years or so, and reply-to-list is a feature I've never
found in that software.. and I'd count it among the older techie-oriented
programs!
> I'm on a lot of mailing lists that have reply-to mangling turned on and
> it does make it easier to reply to the list instead of to the sender,
> which is what you want to do most of the time. I do still see people
> publicly posting messages that they meant to send privately because of
> the mangling, but I haven't done it myself for years because I've got
> into the habit of always carefully examining the "To" line before
> hitting send.
Insertion of the reply-to header does make the common case easy: replying
to the list. I get automated reminder type messages which show a from:
address with reply-to somewhere else, but I don't recall ever having seen
such a message from a Live Person to a mailing list -- so I don't think
inserting (or mangling the original) reply-to headers will be likely to
cause any trouble in that regard.
Long story short: I support the motion.
Greg
