[Tutor] OT: Admin suggestion: Add reply address to mailer

[Kirk Bailey]

This is not the first time I have onsidered such issues. It would be good if you could 
click one button to reply to the sender, and another to reply to the list. Alas, 
clicking REPLY ALL sends back to BOTH on netscape. Not sure  how it works in the world 
of microsoft, as I believe it is a moral weakness to support evil institutions, but my 
impression is this is normal behavior in most email clients. Can anyone figure out a way 
to get tricky with headers to force one or the other, but not BOTH?



Magnus Lyckå wrote:
> At 16:08 2003-07-16 +0200, Quentin wrote:
> 
>> All the lists I belong to have an auto reply address that will return 
>> all replies back to the list, instead of to the original poster. Most 
>> mailing list servers have this option. Is it possible for the Tutor 
>> list to have it as well?
> 
> 
> We've been through this, it's somewhere in the archives.
> The simple answer is that with most email clients, it's
> easy to answer either to the list of to the sender if
> it's set up as it is now.
> 
> Just 'reply' will reply to the sender, and 'reply to all'
> will also reply to the list.
> 
> With 'reply-to' header set to the list, it requires some
> manual labour to reply to the sender with most email clients.
> 
> It's always good to prune the headers of an email manually,
> just as you should prune the rest of the mail, for instance
> removing uneeded quotes of previous mails.
> 
> Also, if you have the 'reply-to' set to the mailing list, and
> just use 'reply' in your email client, the attribution for
> quotes will typically say "you wrote" instead of for instance
> "Quentin wrote".
> 
> I guess the best thing would be if every subscriber could set
> up what they want 'reply-to' set to. Perhaps that is a reasonable
> feature request for Mailman? Or can it be configured like that?
> 
> 
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> Magnus Lycka (It's really Lyckå), magnus@thinkware.se
> Thinkware AB, Sweden, www.thinkware.se
> I code Python ~ The Agile Programming Language
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