Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] RFC: reply-to address default to LAD (was: Re: Reply-To)
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 17:31:01 EST
>> Because I have always succeeded to include linux-audio-dev automatically,
>> I wonder if people have set their mailing programs correctly? In that
>> case using reply-to field would be a global solution to a local problem.
>
>Uhhh.. I got two copies of this. You were saying?
Right, and this is what the "Reply-To-Considered-Harmful" paper
ignores. Sure, its normally easy to use the commands for
"reply-to-author" and "reply-to-everyone".
But "reply-to-everyone" has no way to know that the author is a member
of the original "To: ...-list@..." address that gets used in the Cc:
line. Hence, "reply-to-everyone" always ends up sending 2 copies to
the author, which is damned annoying if you are a prolific author.
Who, me ? :)
OTOH, when Reply-To *is* set, it tends to be hard to reply to *just*
the author. MH, for example, allows you to write nonsense like:
repl -cc x-uid
(which will take the contents of the X-UID line, if there is one, and
put it on a Cc: line). But it does not allow:
repl -cc to
presumably because it was thought nonsensical and/or redundant ("What
do you mean, send a reply and cc the person who is was from ?"). heh.
--p
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