Re: [PLUG] Reply-to issue with the mailing list.

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

This one time, at band camp, multiple seriousity said:
> > > Um... could we maybe put a stop to the public AOLs?
> 
> > This is not a particularly easy problem to resolve. It's a big user 
> > education issue...mailings are set so that both "reply" and "reply
> > all" go to the entire list
> > But the end-user support side-effect remains. It is the unintended 
> > consequence of having the "Reply-to" point only back to the list:
> > 	In order to reply to the individual sender instead of the entire list
> > 	requires additional thought and effort -- one must manually address, or
> > 	otherwise edit the outgoing message headers.
> 
> I don't know, I use pine, and when I go to reply to a message it goes
> through the following steps of questions it asks me: 
> 
> first it asks me if I want to include the original message in the reply, 
> 
> then it asks me "Use 'Reply-to:' instead of 'From:' address?" 
> 
> then it asks me "Reply to all recipients?"
> 
mutt can be set up to recognize mailing lists.  'L' then generates a
response to the list, 'r' replies to the sender, and 'g' replies to all.

Nice.

Steve
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