28 Feb
2017
28 Feb
'17
2:22 p.m.
On 28/02/2017 21:23, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
OK, it's official. I rarely criticize mail
interfaces, because
they're usually mostly innocuous. However, today's change makes life
a lot more difficult.
Actually, I rather like it, because in my mail client (Thunderbird) it
shows as "From: Classic Computers <cctalk at classiccmp.org>".
In the past, it was simple to direct a reply to an
individual instead
of to the list because the originator's address was right there in
the From: header. As of today, the list address is substituted for
that, so that it is impossible to respond privately unless you happen
to have a bunch of old messages archived and the person to whom you
want to respond is someone who has written previously.
But the "Reply To:" header lists both cctalk and the original sender's
address, which any mail client should honour, so all you should need to
do is remove the cctalk address (Rich will get two copies of this
because I didn't remove either address).
--
Pete
Pete Turnbull