Taking a poll on mail client reply

[Tom Bruno]

Charles Steinkuehler wrote:

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> Tom Bruno wrote:
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> | I'm tired of hitting reply and then realizing my reply went
> | directly to the person and not the list.
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> This is (holy|flame)-war ground...
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> Check out the first two google hits on: reply-to munging:
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> "Reply-To" Munging Considered Harmful
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
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> MetaSystema.Net: Reply-To Munging Considered Useful
> http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml
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> My main personal experience with nastiness caused by either method is 
> with
> our neighborhood e-mail list: When I first brought the list up, some new
> users were not familiar with the munging feature and send private 
> replies to
> the list by mistake (simply by hitting reply). Reply-to munging has been
> disabled ever since...
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According to other posts, it's immoral to hide your reply's in private 
messages ;)

but I do understand the complications, and like i said, I know nothing 
of why it's setup like this, and have no opinion. I just find it annoying.

And I did it again when i just replied to you, luckly i hit cancel in time.

> ...and google ranks the "considered harmful" page above the "useful" 
> page,
> so it must be bad. :-)
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> Charles Steinkuehler
> charles at steinkuehler.net
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