[Coco] Question about the reply behavior of this email list

Chuck Youse cyouse at serialtechnologies.com
Mon Sep 1 14:43:34 EDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 11:32 -0700, tim lindner wrote:
> Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:
> 
> > What you reply to when you press "reply" is determined by your mail client
> > not the mailing list. You need to be careful when replying and make sure
> > you're replyig to who you think you're replying to.
> 
> Not exactly true, Dennis' mailing list software that can either fill the
> "From:" header with the orginal poster, or the list address.
> 
> I like the way it is.
> 
> Most email clients just use the "From:" header when "Replying". But will
> use "From:" and "CC:" when "Replying all".
> 

Actually, a fair number honor the Reply-To part of the RFC822 header,
which is the problem here.

C.





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