Re: [tdf-discuss] unsubscribed posters

On 10/19/2010 06:00 AM, James Wilde wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 13:50 , Charles Marcus wrote:
>
> > On 2010-10-18 6:27 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
> > > Even if the Reply=To were modified, wouldn't the inclusion of the OP on
> > > the messages fall apart as soon as somebody didn't use Reply All?
> >
> > The purpose of Reply-To header is to manage how replies are handled.
> > Reply All is not necessary if the Reply-To header is correct and you use
> > a standards compliant mail client that doesn't ignore it.
>
> Unfortunately, Charles, about 99.3% of the general public, or, say, 87.2% of the people on this 
> list don't have such a mail client.  At the moment I'm using Mac Mail, which pulls the sender's 
> name if I press Reply, and everybody's name if I press Reply All.  As far as I remember Outlook has 
> the same characteristics.  I can't remember what T-Bird did on Linux and I haven't used pine in a 
> hundred years.

Where did you get these numbers?  Respecting the Reply-To header is a 
pretty basic feature.  Yes, thunderbird, gmail, pine, etc. respects it. 
 Pine actually asks whether you want to use the Reply-To or From address.

> I think this is probably because Reply To is not set in most clients, and is filled in on sending 
> from the Sender field.

Unless the reply should be addressed to someone other than the sender, 
the Reply-To shouldn't be set.  Mailing list servers often add a 
Reply-To header, so that discussion is directed to the list.

     ----Jon

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