Michael Radziej schrieb:
On Thu, Jan 11, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
On most lists when you read a posted message then hit "reply" the To: field is automatically filled in with the "list-post" address, i.e. it will be sent to the list. However whatever mailing list manager SuSE uses here fills in the reply-to address of the person who's post you're reading (as I'm sure you're all well aware of).
I find this really annoying, and several times have accidently sent things to a person instead of to the list.
Is there anyway y'all @ SuSE would please consider fixing that? I consider it a bug, not a feature :-)
This discussion comes up every few months. Perhaps it should be included in an FAQ :-)
Whether or not lists should have an Reply-To-header seems to me a kind of religious thing. Some people could start a war about it (if they
not! it is not sort of religious. it is a practical question!
could afford it). We have chosen not to create a reply-to-header. The mailing list is already crowded enough. We think it is better to require some thought before sending off a message to thousands to people and possibly annoying them.