[WBEL-users] whitebox reply-to address

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I've seen this argument before. Its a great argument. It makes sense.
Reminds me of a couple of times that I said:

"This turned out to be one of those things that looks great on paper but
doesn't work well in the real world"

:) Dave

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 17:27, Vicki Reeves wrote:
> 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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