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James Mills prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Thu May 27 10:51:00 EDT 2004


On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:45:24AM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
> [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and     ]
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> 
> On Thu, 27 May 2004, James Mills wrote:
> 
> > I am Visually Impaired and find it quite annoying to have to change the
> > To: field everytime I want to respond to something on the mailing list.
> > Could whoever is responsible for this mailing list change the Reply-To:
> > field to the address of this mailing list please ? It makes it so much
> > easier to communicate via the mailing list as you simply only need to
> > Reply :)
> 
> As noted by Nikolai this has been covered ... ah, a few times :)
> 
> In any case, last time it came up I wrote the following procmail rules to
> add a reply-to header for those who wanted it:
> 
> # Add Reply-To to HUMBUG General list
> :0 cfw
> * ^X-BeenThere:.*general at lists.humbug.org.au.*
> | formail -a "Reply-To: general at lists.humbug.org.au"
> 
> # Add Reply-To to HUMBUG Chat list
> :0 cfw
> * ^X-BeenThere:.*chat at lists.humbug.org.au.*
> | formail -a "Reply-To: chat at lists.humbug.org.au"
> 
> A bunch of people (myself included) have been using this for months so I
> consider it well tested.

Thanks Rob, I'll use that :)

cheers
James

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