[H-GEN] A request to the list maintainers

[Stuart Longland]

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Sandra Milne wrote:
| At 07:38 14/02/2003 +1000, Greg Black wrote:
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|> 1. Drop the "Reply-To" header munging that is currently carried
|>    out.  Rather than waste space here with the arguments, I will
|>    refer you to this excellent article by Chip Rosenthal:
|
|
| How do I reply to the list if the reply-to field isn't set? I vote for
| not changing it. I too belong to a lot of lists and yes there is traffic
| that really shouldn't be posted to the lists. I prefer that than to lose
| traffic that should have come to the list but didn't, or to have a CC
| from somebody when I'm already on the list and therefore get the message
| twice. (Something that really used to bug me about 6 years ago before
| reply-to headers were a standard thing on mailing list setups)
|
Here's an idea...Could it be set up to make the Reply-To field set to
the list AND the poster?  ie, for this email:

Reply-to: general at lists.humbug.org.au, stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org

Then you could just delete the email address you don't want to send to,
and satisfy both parties.
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| Stuart Longland           stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org |
| Brisbane Mesh Node: 719             http://stuartl.cjb.net/ |
| I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere |
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