Well, Phillip already said most of the relevant Mail.
So here's my ME-TOO-NOT-LIKE-THE-NEW mail:
>> The best text on the subject i've seen is
``Reply-To'' Munging Considered
>> Harmful by Chip Rosenthal.
>>
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> I personally like Reply-To: set to the mailing
list. All the lists I'm on
> are set up that way and there have been no problems that I could see (yes,
> you see the occasional private message sent but it's not that big a
> problem).
Hello again everyone! Good to be back!
Same here :) I already got a nervous breakdown, seeing that while I
have been 5 days over the ocean just 27 'new' messages arrived !
I have read both the above web articles. I'd like
to cast my vote in favour of
REPLY-TO: == THE LIST
1. I don't want to receive two messages when
someone replies to me and the list
2. With the old system, if someone forgot to change
the header, there was a
spurious message, which I deleted. Some people might object to the waste of
bandwidth, but it merely gave me one extra message to delete.
With the new system, if someone forgets to change the
header, the information
doesn't reach the list. This causes a bigger waste of bandwidth, because you
get more people answering the same question, not having seen each other's
replies. And it stifles discussion, because replies-to-replies often never get
generated (and these are sometimes the most useful).
I just answered to Philips Mail, and only becaus I checked to be shure
I recogniced that the list wasn't at all in the TO or CC headers !
So the new method gives less info to the list for more
use of bandwidth. IMHO,
not good.
Like resending mails
I am on several lists, of which about half work the
old way (reply to the list
by default). This is very convenient on all of them. Of the others, on the one
where I have asked questions I have received substantially the same reply
privately from several people, but the discussion hasn't borne fruit on the
list.
Also my mailer (Pegasus/Win) just offers the ordinary 'reply' button.
No selectable stuff, so I have to edit. End if you take a look at
Ethans Mail: he is using some Web service, sending out dual mails ..
And I REALY hate duplicate mails ... especialy when produced due
uncommon machine features. As with all machine made decision you
have a variety between right and wrong, and Reply-To enshures that
the percentage of unwanted messages is way lower than the 'new'
way.
Last but not least, it's the RFC 822 way - and standards are the
only real chance to go along.
Gruss
H.
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