[WBEL-users] whitebox reply-to address

[Vicki Reeves]

Thomas Knoop wrote:
> Why is the reply-to set to *not* answer to the list?

There are 2 schools of thought on this.  For the whole argument, see the 
majordomo archives.  This quote from that source lists the three main 
reasons for setting a list up as this one is:

> 1) it's clear to everyone who you are replying to, plus
>    that person gets an immediate copy even if the list is slow
> 
> 2) some people don't see ANY headers in their mail tool,
>    so this is the ONLY way they know who wrote the post!
>    (unless you convince everyone to use a sig block, or
>    set up the server to add the posting address to the body)
> 
> 3) you have a choice, without copy/paste, of replying
>    only to the poster or to the whole list (based on
>    using "reply" or "reply to all"). Remember that some
>    braindead mail tools don't show headers, so if a
>    person wants to reply off-list, they may not be able
>    to do it if you've configured all replies to the list.





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