[WBEL-users] whitebox reply-to address
Vicki Reeves
vickir@beau.org
Sun, 17 Oct 2004 17:27:09 -0500
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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