list-admin :: default to 'reply-to' the list ?

Ken Snider ksnider at flarn.com
Wed Nov 1 11:10:44 CST 2006


Todd Lyons wrote:

> <sigh>  Another list.  The same argument. </sigh>
> 
> If you have the option, use a mailer that supports list-reply for your
> mailing lists, and your regular Outlook or Thunderbird or Evolution for
> the rest of your email.  I use mutt, which supports this.  (I've tried
> to switch away from mutt.  I really have.  But all of the gui clients
> just plain suck.  mutt just sucks less. <tm> )

Thunderbird supports it via Extension (Display-mailing-list-header extension).

Plus, that argument is increasingly a suggestion for the minority. I don't 
see how having the option to use list-reply negates any of the other raised 
points for the majority case, and one would assume the list should be 
configured to be most convenient for the greatest number of users, no?

And lastly, if you *are* using list-reply, what does it matter *what* the 
Reply-To header is set to in that case? You are telling your MUA to ignore 
it anyway. It would seem not setting in a way beneficial to the majority 
case becomes nothing more than a punitive act at that point.

-- 
Ken Snider



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