Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 06:39:43PM -0600, Mike Hicks wrote: > > Erm, can you explain why Reply-To is so evil? > > Go ask google to tell you about "reply-to considered harmful". > > Short version: Most mail clients have separate 'reply to sender' and > 'reply to sender and all recipients' commands. Some (like mutt) even > have a third option, 'reply to mailing list'. Many people think that > lists should not override 'reply to sender' to mean 'reply to list' - > if the user wants to send a reply back to the list, he has other > commands available for that purpose. Ah, I see. Too bad most mailers aren't that smart -- I could see the benefit in that. I know I've been annoyed when I actually wanted to reply directly to the author of a message, but the Reply-To got in the way. Even clicking Reply All didn't add their address to the list of recipients. However, until I see more mail clients supporting the mailing list headers properly, I'd definitely advocate Reply-To munging. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening anytime soon. E-mail clients have been reinvented many times, and there's another ongoing cycle with web mail. Has anyone else noticed that Hotmail doesn't even seem to set In-Reply-To or References headers anymore? That's pretty sad, IMHO.. At least Lotus Notes finally seems to have gotten rid of the bug where replying to a message would reply to the address in the Sender header field. Now, I wonder if anyone can convince me that replying above quoted messages (like what most `groupware' clients do these days) is a good thing ;-) -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ If everything seems to be / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ working, you obviously \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) missed something. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020223/ff0d88b1/attachment.pgp