Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: Richard J. Wyble <rwyble@erols.com> Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 19:41 Subject: [Leica] Public vs. private response to list articles > One common practice is for all mailing-list articles > to have the Reply-To header set to the address of > the original poster rather than to the list. Uh... no, that's not a common practice at all. It is much more common to set the Reply-To address to send replies back to the list rather than back to the original poster. If this isn't done, the reply address must be modified for every single reply to the list, which is very impractical. If you wish to reply personally and privately to someone on a mailing list, you _must_ check the reply address and modify it as necessary in your reply. You should always assume that a normal reply to a mailing list will go to the entire list, because nine out of ten mailing lists are configured in exactly that way. -- Anthony