Re: replies

["Uwe Koloska" <uwe.koloska@mailbox.tu-dresden.de>]

You wrote on Mit, 16 Aug 2000:
>Hraban <angerweit@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> Berend de Boer wrote:
>> > Yes, I also hate it that reply replies to the sender instead of the
>> > list. That doesn't facilitate list communication.
>> 
>> I get other mailing lists where the list server overwrites
>> the "reply-to" with the list address -- isn't this possible
>> for the ntg server?
>
>Munging the email headers is a kludge to support broken email
>clients.  

There are two opposite positions about that:
    http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
    http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml

>An email client should provide a "reply to all" feature which will
>reply to the author and the list.  

That's very bad, because normally the sender of an email that is published
in a newgroup is subscribed to this list.  And this means that she gets the
answer to her email twice!

But there is help right at hand (for some of us):
kmail has a nice feature, that by right clicking on an address in the "To:"
or "CC:" field you can choose "send reply to ..." (or similar -- I use the
german version).

and AFAIK there are some mailers that are able to choose an extra answer
address for a folder -- so you can collect all your ConTeXt listmails in
one folder and everytime you send an email out of this folder this special
address is chosen.

Yours
Uwe Koloska

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