[Discuss] GMail doesn't recognize mailing lists

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

"Daniel C." <dcrookston at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
> <greg at freephile.com> wrote:
>> Why doesn't GMail reply to list by default?! Does this lack of feature bug
>> you?
>
> Gmail is behaving correctly.  The reply-to header is set by the
> mailing list administrator, and should be obeyed by the mail client.
> If you want this list to reply to list by default, feel free to argue
> your case here but be warned that this topic is almost always a sticky
> morass of flames, dogma and other unpleasantness.

"Reply" should reply to the original sender, not to the list.  That is
what the "Reply-to-List" and "Reply-All" functionality is for.

> -Dan

-derek

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