> 1. I have a mild preference for "reply" going to the original sender and
> "replyall" going to the entire list rather than both going to the entire
> list, but I can cut and paste addresses to make replies go where I want
> under either system. (The only circumstances when I need to use "forward"
> is when I really want to forward messages to someone new.)
Note that the addresses of all the listees are not in the message, so
what you are describing is a bit different than what "reply all" means
to some people, which means send the response to the sender and other
recipients. The "all" option cannot know that the list address is not
an individual address but the address of a list. I think most people
will not have this option. If the name of the list is in the Reply-to:
header (or in the From: header), a reply will go to the list, regardless
of one's email software. I suspect that most replies will not go to the
original sender, but if so then this name will be somewhere in some
header (but it will depend on your email software whether it can be
extracted automatically).
> 2. In another thread, someone mentioned all those misconfigured vacation
> programs that reply to messages from the list. If we set the "Reply-To:"
> header to point to the list, won't that cause all those bogus autoreplies
> to go to the list (or require those messages to be filtered out in some way)?
Any sensible vacation program should be able to determine from various
headers if this is a mailing list and not send the message in this case.
However, looking at the headers of this message, it doesn't seem to be
possible.
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