[LAU] Reply to

[S. Massy]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 03:52:25PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On 08/09/2011 03:11 PM, Goran Mekic wrote:
> >Can you, please, set Reply To: to go to the list, not the sender,
> >please? It's a trivial change, and I can't count the number of times
> >I've sent my reply to sender, not the list. Thanx!
> 
> The other way round (list instead of just sender) is worse, so
> making it a clear decision to use Reply-to-list instead of
> Reply(-to-sender) is of benefit. Clients with no or not obvious
> enough Reply-to-list are broken.
> 
> Also:
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html
The philosophy may or may not be right. All I know is that I've had more
problems mistakenly replying privately when intending to reply to the
list than the other way around. Anyway, if we're to leave reply-to
alone, listservs probably shouldn't modify the subject line either.

Cheers,
S.M.