Taking a poll on mail client reply

[Monty J. Harder]

On 1/3/06, Jeremy Turner <linuxwebguy at gmail.com> wrote:

On the other hand, if the list is set to reply back to the list
> itself, and I want to reply to a particular user and click 'Reply to
> All', I don't have the option of simply erasing 'kclug at kclug.org' and
> going on with life.  The Reply-To header munging eliminates their
> email address.  Then I have to go back to the original email, copy the


That's only if the 'munging' REPLACES the original poster's address with the
list address, as opposed to ADDING the list address to the individual
address.  The confusion over the difference between these two practices
leads many people to oppose what is IMO the best way to manage a mailing
list.

The whole point of an email list is group discussion.  The default reply
should include the list and the individual.  With both addresses in the To
and/or Cc fields, it's easy to delete one if desired.  At a minimum, each
user should have the option to set this behavior in the listserv software.

And before someone says RFC, they ought to fscking read them.  The Reply-To
header was specifically designed for purposes such as this.
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