On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 01:25:28PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > the problem I see with this, is that if you reply to all; the address > of the person you replied to, will appear in the list of To: or cc: > addresses, when the post appears on the list. if someone then replies > to *that* message, it ends up going to the list, and as a personal > reply to anyone that has been sent a personal message, and to the > sender. You should take a look at some of the flame wars that start up on the debian-devel list over the use of "Cc:" in email. Some people post to the devel list that are not members, and request that they be "Cc:" into every reply. Some are smart enough to seed their own address there with the first post so that email clients that aren't too smart will continue to do so. Other developers HATE, despise, and curse people who include them in the "Cc:" as a result of poor use of email clients or simple laziness. This complaint resides under the logic that the developer already subscribes to the list and don't want two copies, and it is usually never a reason to add "Reply-To" munging. It comes up occassionally from newbies to the list, but it is quickly disregarded by the larger veteran population. Alternatively, if the discussion is to be taken off list, the "Reply-To" field is a better seed for such redirection. Maybe you'd like to move a discussion from one list to another. Use the "Reply-To" field to redirect further posts to the thread. Since clients tend to obey "Reply-To" fields, you can reasonably assume that everyone will be able to make the cross-over. "Reply-To" is simply far too useful to go munging it with a listserver. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Get my public key, ICQ#, etc. $(mailx -s 'get info' chewie at wookimus.net) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020227/b2381db0/attachment.pgp