Re: Annoying Reply-To

* Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1(at)burntmail(dot)com> [081001 00:00]:
> Bill Moran wrote:
> >You can resent it or not, but this _is_ a personal thing. It's personal
> >because you are the only one complaining about it. Despite the large
> >number of people on this list, I don't see anyone jumping in to defend
> >you.
>
> I'm another in the crowd that had this same discussion when I joined
> years ago. I had the same point of view as Mikkel, but I've adapted to
> the community way of doing things.
>
> When I use "Reply All" in Thunderbird, it adds a "To:" to each of the
> individuals in the discussion, and a "CC:" to the list. Since I
> personally don't like receiving multiple copies of emails from this
> list, I delete all of the "To:" addressees and change the list from
> "CC:" to "To:". Would be nice if everyone did the same.

Since you asked, I did.

But now, if the list munged my reply-to, how would you get back to me?

"Clicking on the author", as the 2nd link Greg posted suggested *won't*
work. In fact, my MUA explicitly told you how to get back to me (by
setting a reply-to), but if the MLM munged that...

/me is glad that PostgreSQL doesn't "just insert NULL" when I give it an
empty string, just because "NULL is pretty much the same thing" ;-)

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