-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-10-17 at 08:10 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
If the list Netiquette for this list is to reply to the List, why is the Reply-To field set to the original author?
No, you got it wrong somehow: the list server doesn't set the "Reply-To" field to anything, it is left alone. If you see a reply-to it was set by the original sender of the email (like Bryen does).
Exactly my point. Most all other lists I am on set the reply-to to the list. After all, the original sender did not sent the message to me, the list did.
- From the previous list FAQ: FAQ - Frequently asked questions of the suse-linux-e@suse.com list. ... Q2. Why do my replies go to the original poster and not the list? A2. We do not "munge" the mail headers by inserting a "Reply-To: suse-linux-e@suse.com" because it makes it more difficult subscribers to handle the mail the way they want to. Your mail client probably has a "reply" function as well as a "reply to all" or "reply to list" one; Please use the latter if you want you message to go to the list and not just to the original poster. Also, please don't complain about this on the list, it has been discussed many, many, many times in the past already. For background information see http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html New! Even Sourceforge has turned to the dark side: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6693&group_id=1
There is a header in list mail like this:
List-Post: mailto:opensuse@opensuse.org
that is used by some programs to activate the "reply to list" command. Unfortunately, not all programs do so.
Totally non-standard. Informative, but I bet almost never used in any e-mail program.
Not so: RFC 2369 and 4021. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHFhiStTMYHG2NR9URArDOAJ45zBzRy+9nNvOOwQiqqKSjkVVngwCdGd96 gaz1L/CObFUlvIBC8VR0nIE= =oaC6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org