----- Original Message -----
From: "James Giles" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: list move
> Herbert Fruchtl <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ...
>
> >I would side with the earlier posters in this thread. I subscribe to this
> >list not only to hear about others' problems, but also their solutions
> >(and other opinions). I can live with a few "I'm on holiday" messages.
>
> That's one of the major problems with the Reply-To: header pointing
> to the mailing list. The "I'm on holiday" messages would be sent to
> all the recipients of the list for every article posted. Instead, such
> messages are now only sent to the author of the article. Unless the
> list server is smart enough to recognize and reject such autoresponses
> (and *only* those) you can't have Reply-To: be the list.
>
> As for the other objections to Reply-To: being the list, I agree that
> there need to be three options for mailing lists. You want to be
> able to reply to the list, you want to be able to reply to the author,
> and (much more rarely) you want to reply to all (which could include
> a set of people not on the list who've been included for the purposes
> of a given conversation). My mail tool only gives me convenient
> options for reply to all and reply to author (it's spelled that way,
> by the way, so if this button automagically sent to the list instead
> it would be non-intuitive). If I want the reply-to-list option I must
> always select reply-to-all and then delete every adress but the list.
>
> I see no adequate solution to this problem unless some new header
> item can be standardized which contains the list's address and
> news tools were all rewritten to provide all three options based
> on that new header information. No matter what you do with
> Reply-To:, there will be one of the three options which is sort of
> inconvenient. Short of such a new header, I like the present
> rules. If for no other reason, I'm not exactly sure how to reply
> to only the author if the Reply-To: address is the list. Do I have
> to cut and paste his address from the header information manyally?
>
> --
> J. Giles
>
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