Re: [Pan-users] Emails

[Gerald Livingston]

Looking at the toolbar of my mail client (Claws Mail) I have 

"Reply"  (Reply to the defaulted reply-to address)
"All"    (Reply to all addresses from the header)
"Sender" (Reply to the address in the 'From' header)
"List"   (Reply to the 'List-Address' header if there is one use
          'reply-to' if there isn't)

Defaulting "Reply-to" to the list address is actually the correct way
to do it for a list like this. When one clicks "Reply" one should
expect the message to go back to the place it came from. That is the
list in this instance. There should be a thought process involved in
getting replies to go elsewhere, otherwise the bulk of list discussions
get unintentionally taken off-list or, worse, it falls upon the author
to copy/paste all off-list replies back to the list, usually destroying
threading in the process.

My $0.02

G2

On Sun, 24 May 2015 19:05:32 +0100
Paul Crawford <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 23/05/15 22:21, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > On 05/23/2015 02:08 PM, David Shochat wrote:
> >> (replying off-list) Got to this page.
> >
> >
> > I always find it amusing when somebody sends an off-list response
> > to the list itself.
> 
> The problem is that this mailing list has the "reply" option as going 
> the list address of "address@hidden" and not to the sender.
> 
> The sensible choice is your "reply" button in the email client would 
> reply to the sender, while the "reply list" button would send it to
> the list. As it says on the buttons.
> 
> But a lot of list admins set it up so reply goes to everyone so that 
> people who just use reply because (a) they don't know any better, or
> (b) because some dumb-ass email client declines to offer them the
> choice, still are part of a group discussion.
> 
> I find that tedious, as it then means having to cope & paste the
> email address, or go to it and right-click then "compose message to"
> or whatever, in order to privately reply. But there you go.
> 
> Regards, Paul
> 
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