Taking a poll on mail client reply

[Charles Steinkuehler]

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Tom Bruno wrote:

| I'm tired of hitting reply and then realizing my reply went
| directly to the person and not the list.

This is (holy|flame)-war ground...

Check out the first two google hits on: reply-to munging:

"Reply-To" Munging Considered Harmful
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

MetaSystema.Net: Reply-To Munging Considered Useful
http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml

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...

...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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