On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Oliver Ob wrote: oo> Michael Radziej schrieb: oo> oo> > On Thu, Jan 11, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > > > On most lists when oo> you read a posted message then hit "reply" the To: field is oo> automatically filled in with the "list-post" address, i.e. it will oo> be sent to the list. However whatever mailing list manager SuSE oo> uses here fills in the reply-to address of the person who's post oo> you're reading (as I'm sure you're all well aware of). > > > > I oo> find this really annoying, and several times have accidently sent oo> things to a person instead of to the list. > > > > Is there anyway oo> y'all @ SuSE would please consider fixing that? I consider it a oo> bug, not a feature :-) > > This discussion comes up every few oo> months. Perhaps it should be included > in an FAQ :-) > > Whether oo> or not lists should have an Reply-To-header seems to me a kind > oo> of religious thing. Some people could start a war about it (if oo> they oo> oo> not! it is not sort of religious. it is a practical question! oo> The reason for this is because of improperly configured mailservers or mailservers with small limits o nthe users mailboxes. What has happened in the past is that when a message would bounce, it would reply back to the list, thus flooding the list with (sometimes) hundreds of messages about Jo Schmoes email box being too full or what not. To prevent this, the list has opted to change the Reply-To list to a Reply-To sender so that the message's being bounced wouldn't end up on the list itself. If it's that much a bother, you can always have procmail add a Reply-To for you so that it will be the way you want, but you may want to make sure your system is properly configured or you'll one day realize that you were removed from the list. oo> > oo> > could afford it). We have chosen not to create a reply-to-header. The oo> > mailing list is already crowded enough. We think it is better to oo> > require some thought before sending off a message to thousands to oo> > people and possibly annoying them. oo> > oo> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v7.0+ - Kernel 2.2.18 Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. -- Fran Leibowitz