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

[Jeff Shannon]

Kirk Bailey wrote:

> 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?


Yes, 'reply all' sends back to both parties, with pretty much any 
mailer.  (That's why it's 'reply ALL'.)  It is, however, fairly simple 
to delete undesired addresses from the email before it's sent -- 
especially since you're trimming the quoted email body anyhow.  (You 
*are* trimming the email to only the most relevant quoted sections, 
right??)  Deleting unwanted addresses is a *lot* easier than adding 
additional addresses.  And it's rarely a problem for the email to go to 
an extra (private) address, anyhow.

I certainly wouldn't mind if standard mailers grew a third 'reply to 
list' option, but given that the standard options are only 'reply to 
sender' and 'reply to all', I'm perfectly happy with manually trimming 
the reply list.  This seems like much less of a problem than the 
weirdnesses that would likely be caused by getting "tricky with headers" 
-- as the link I posted mentions, header munging often leads to 
unpredictable results, and the less it's done the better.

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International