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Derek Atkins wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: DA> No, the only people that get double-responses are the people DA> who are actually in the To: and CC: fields. For example, DA> Jonathan and John will both receive double responses, but no DA> one else will.. (And I'll probably receive double-responses DA> to this message, although my mailer will hide them from me DA> ;) I am actually reading this list via real UUCP -- I know, I know -- and I cannot even tell from what I see whether the message was posted to the list or to me as an individual. I can often guess correctly, but your message says: DA> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> DA> To: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold at buddydog.org> So by the time I get it, I have no assurance of whether this message was posted to a list, nor to which list it may have been posted. If I want to reply to the list, I have to manually type out "discuss at blu.org" as an override in the reply address, which is what I have done in this case. DA> When the reply-to field exists, most mailers wont put the DA> sender's address in the response. THis means that if I want DA> to respond privately I have to manually cut-and-paste the DA> sender out of the original message and into my reply header, DA> and then remove the list. Now, I get both the list (because DA> it was in the To or CC field) and the sender, and I only DA> need to cut out the list to send a private message. This may be, but my situation is the opposite. I can always cut and paste the sender's personal address if I want to reply privately, but I have no idea where to reply (except by guessing) if I want to reply to the list. DA> I think it is safe to assume that most people on the BLU DA> list are intelligent enough to cut out the list address when DA> they want to send a personal reply to a message. At least DA> _I_ would like to think that people on this list are that DA> intelligent. I admit that my situation is suboptimal. Indeed, my entire mail system could be the poster child for suboptimal. Nevertheless, it has been running this way for over a decade, back when UUCP operators were not regarded as escapees from a leper colony. There is effectively no such thing in UUCP as what SMTP calls the "envelope" address, so I strongly support retaing the list post address as the "Reply-To" in relayed messages. -- Mike *** Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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