On 2008-10-17 12:13, Mikkel Høgh wrote:
>> You're supposed to use "Reply to all" if you want to reply to the
>> list.
>
> Well, I think the most common use case for a mailing list is to reply
> back to the list, isn't that the whole point?
It is a point of having "Reply to all" button. With "reply-to" is it
hard to reply to one person, easy to reply to the list. Without it it is
both easy.
> Personally I find it annoying that I get two copies of each reply to
> one of my posts, one that is filtered into the mailinglist folder
> because it has the correct X-Mailing-List header and the other just
> sits there in my inbox, wasting both bandwidth and disk space in the
> process.
So set reply-to in messages you send by yourself - it will be honored.
> Besides, the if the Reply-To thing is so dangerous, why do most other
> mailing lists do it?
for i in Windows MySQL IE Sweets Alcohol etc.; do
echo "If using $i is so dangerous, why do most do it?"
done
Regards
Tometzky
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...although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a
moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you
were...
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