On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 11:07 -0600, William Kilian wrote:
> I agree that replies should go only to the list and not the list and 
> sender. That's normal list etiquette. I don't get duplicates because I 
> have procmail recipe that catches them all, but I had noticed when 
> Replying to All that sometimes that there were several cc's listed.

Nifty.  Would you be kind enough to share this recipe?  I would
appreciate it greatly.

> I don't want to start any holy wars about MUAs or list policy, but I 
> think the list should be overriding Reply-To headers.

Actually, that is an infrastructure thing.  They won't do it, and I
agree with them.

> I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird with no extensions, and the only toolbar 
> reply buttons or context menu choices I get are Reply to Sender and 
> Reply to All. I.e., I have no explicit Reply to List option. However, 
> Reply to Sender uses the Reply-To address if it exists. My Reply-To is 
> blank and the list sets the Reply-To to gentoo-catalyst@g.o on 
> messages from me. I notice that the list also does this for others. 
> However, the Reply-To for messages from you is not set to the list. 
> There are others whose personal addresses are also staying in the 
> Reply-To. That's probably why I started using Reply-All in the first 
> place. I'd been wondering why I had to fix the headers so often when I 
> reply to this list. Shouldn't the list be overriding Reply-To headers? 
> Who wants the casual reply to a message from this list to go just to the 
> original sender anyway? If somebody really has a need to email only the 
> original sender, let that person take the extra time to fix the address.

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

Anyway, if Thuderbird has no way to reply-to-list, then Thunderbird
should be extended.  Is there a feature request already out there for
this?  I know that in evolution, you must select "Reply to List" from
the context menu, as there's no button for it.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux