On 13 Nov 2001, R Pickett wrote:
> > Why do you think that people
> > want to reply to the original sender automatically?
>
> Because that's what the reply button is supposed to do -- reply to
> sender. It works that way on every mail I receive -except- mail from
> NTLK. NTLK breaks the UI of my mailer. It's like an HTML page that
> makes visited links blue and unvisited links red -- it's not just
> nonstandard, it's the opposite of the standard.
Okay, fine, I'm going to jump into this.
Right now, this list is set to preserve the sender's address in the From:
header, set Reply-To: to the list posting address, and set the To: to the
list address. Headers look like this:
From: Victor Rehorst <victor_at_newtontalk.net>
Reply-To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Subject: foo bar, and also baz
I hit reply, my mailer (Pine 4.33) says "use Reply-To header for reply
address?" and I say yes. Whoop-ee - I'm sending to the list. if I had
said no, then I'd be sending it to myself (the author of the original
message).
So say I remove the Reply-To: header. Now the headers look like this:
From: Victor Rehorst <victor_at_newtontalk.net>
To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Subject: foo bar, and also quux
Now, I hit reply, and I get a new message addressed to the list. But
there's no way for me to reply to the original sender anymore, without
editing the new message myself. This sucks ass.
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