Kent Landfield wrote:
>[John O. Kopf wrote:]
> # why is the list set up so that "replies" go to the poster rather
> # than to the list?
>
> ??? Replies go the the user that posted it. If you want it to go
> to the list then you need to either do a group reply or specifically
> address it to the list.
Most mailers have two different "reply" features: "Reply to just
the person who sent it" and "Reply to everybody else who received
it, too". For mailing lists, the analogous interpretations are
that the first method goes to the sender only, and you should use
the second method to reply to the whole list. This is the way
that the faq-maintainers list is currently set up.
> As to the policy of not setting the Reply-To to the list....
> This has been discussed in the past and the consensus was that
> it was prefered it be set as it is.
See also http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html for a
comprehensive explanation of why munging Reply-To to point to the
entire list would be Wrong. [I admit that I was puzzled about
the issue, myself, and thought that it would be a good idea to
set Reply-To to point to the list, until I read this essay.]
Steve Summit
scs@eskimo.com
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