Reply-toMungingor, "Why doesn't the mailing list slap a "Reply-to: dunlug" header on every message?On Tue 29 Nov 2005, Bob M Brown wrote: ps. To the list owner, the default reply for this list is to the author of the message, not back to the list. Can this be changed?
Ah, the eternal question of reply-to munging. We had an extensive flamew^H^H^H^H^H^Hdiscussion on this a year or so back. Take a look at http://lists.ethernal.org/dunlug-0409/msg00024.html and the ensuing debate (which is actually very informative in places). The very brief summary is that reply-to munging is considered by many to be a Bad Thing. More pertinently, it is considered by the administrator of this list to be a Bad Thing, so it's unlikely to be changed. But most modern mail clients can be configured to do the right thing. (I'm afraid I can't advise specifically on Thunderbird, which you seem to be using; Mutt does it by allowing you to specify any mailing lists you're subscribed to, and providing `reply-to-list' and `reply-to-author' commands which work equally well whether or not the list is munged.) Pont |