Thread and Reply to List Breakage (Windows users?)

Paul Baumgardner pbaumgardner at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 16:52:42 EST 2006


On 12/1/06, Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> wrote:
> Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > Please don't reply to individuals when participating in list threads,
> > reply to the list (The way God intended! :-)  ) Unless you have a
> > specific need or reason to reply to that individual.
>
> If it's that important to you, then you should be lobbying for the reply-to
> for messages delivered via the list to be set to the list address.  To do as
> you suggest, given the current state of things, I need to do a reply-all to
> get the blu address in the CC field, then manually edit the header to make the
> CC into a TO.

Mailing lists that set the Reply-To field are not configured
correctly.  Here's a nice explanation:

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

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