On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:04:09 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@tiscali.es> wrote:
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The Saturday 2006-03-25 at 14:29 -0500, ken wrote:
I looked at the complete headers in your email and didn't see any Reply-to in it. The From field, on the other hand, was there and contained your email address (not the LIST's).
So isn't this the way the LIST was set up?
You are supposed to use a "list friendly mail client", like kmail, for instance, and use the command "reply to list", which will do the proper thing.
If you don't have it (as myself) use "reply to all", but then remove the direct reply from the headers. Or, you can setup a filter to add a reply-to header (as I do) to received mail.
You have information about this in this list FAQ (mail to "suse-linux-e-faq@suse...."), regarding the whys and such.
- -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Carlos (& others), Thanks for the tips, but I long ago adapted, did the workaround, and got this email client (and several others I'm using) to handle the quirks of how this list operates. My point-- my only point-- was that people here (you know who you are) shouldn't berate the users on this list for how the list was set up. It's not their fault. It's the way the list is set up. A second, derivative point (pertaining to instructions and documentation on this issue): Isn't it silly to configure the list server so that replies go to the poster and then ask each and every user to run through special instructions and documentation, then change to a different email client and/or change how their client works just to defeat that list configuration? Here's some documentation: If we want people to reply to "list", then in the listserver configuration set the Reply-to to "list". (List users don't have to read special documentation or change their email client or change its behavior. It just works.) Too easy? Not convoluted or geeky or user-hostile enough? Not enough documentation to read? I always thought that computers were supposed to make life easier? Does SuSE want to give people the impression that using (this brand of) Linux will make things more difficult than they really need to be? Glad this list is hardware-independent, :) ken -- ser "This world ain't big enough for the both of us," said the big noema to the little noema.