Reply-to discussion - yet again (Was Re: [H-GEN] Open source firm releases..)

[Bradley Marshall]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 07:31:18PM +1000, David Duffy wrote:
> OK, the list admins decided it. Are they the majority of the list users?
> I mean no disrespect when I say this. It just seems like common sense.
> They way it is now suits me fine. (defaulting to Humbug Reply-To)

As one of the above mentioned list admins and the one who
migrated the lists to mailman, I'd like to point out that the
exec actually decided as Ray mentioned in a previous post.

A large majority of lists I am on don't have a reply to and
most people don't seem to have problems with it.  Noteably,
mailman defaults to not having a reply to set.

Personally I prefer it without the reply-to, but I use a capable
mail reader that allows me to hit a button and reply to the list
without all the fiddling about that others seems to have to do.

Mozilla seems to not have this functionality
- in fact, there's an open bug against it at
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45715,
and some discussion at
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=21703.  I'm not
sure about other common mailers.

The URLs frequently referenced in these discussions
are http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml and
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html.  They seem to
cover both sides of the arguments pretty well.

Thanks,
Brad
-- 
Brad Marshall
brad at humbug.org.au
http://quark.humbug.org.au/