On Thursday 22 December 2005 10:55, Robert Graf-Waczenski wrote:
This may be caused by a missing "List-Post:" header on the list. The following RFC talks about this: http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/rfc2369/
Thanks, I was looking at RFC 822 and some others, but had not reached 2369...
This list here, however, does not even use a "Sender:" header according to RFC822, which means that a simple hit on "Reply" will reply to the poster personally, not to the list. But the pros and cons of this behavior have been discussed ages ago and to my knowledge most people on this list have agreed upon the current settings.
I didn't say anything about changing this list. As I said, I wanted my friend to make her list work the way this one does when a reader selects "Reply to Mailing-list". However, what I see when I read the list doesn't quite correspond to what you say above. I'm reading with KMail 1.9 in KDE 3.5.0a, and mail from *this* list gets the same result whether I choose "Reply" or "Reply-to-Mailing-List". In either case, a reply opens with the _list_ address in the "To:" field. I suppose that's less functional than having two different results from two different commands. However, as you say, most people on this list happen to like how it works now. So, if I wanted my friend's list to set up posts: - to reply to the sender when a reader chooses "Reply" - to reply to the list when a reader chooses "Reply to Mailing-list" which lines would need to be written to headers of messages that are handled by her listserve? As with this list, the function of "Reply" is almost a "don't care" for me, because I rarely respond directly to posters, but the "Reply to Mailing-list" function is useful, since that's my usual action. It hasn't been entirely clear from the chain of e-mail-related RFCs that I've been reading. :-) I don't have a mail server (let alone a list-server) of my own, so I can't easily try different options, to see what happens. Kevin