Lindsay Druett wrote:
No, in fact, I'm going to bring it up with the committee as I'm not the only person that has been caught out this was where natually when you reply to someone, you hit reply, when you reply to a group, you hit reply all.
This comes up at least once with most mailing lists. In general I'm in favour of reply-to munging, because it encourages conversations to stay on the mailing list. Without reply-to munging, conversations divert off the mailing list very easily - especially with newer users. In general, the number of times one might want to reply privately to a person is much lower than the number of times one would want to reply to the list general, so setting reply-to munging makes sense. The problems I have with leaving the reply-to header intact are the aforementioned tendency to divert threads offlist, especially from newer users (whom this list is at least partially targetted at); and that it results in duplicate emails being delivered[1]. It also encourages people posting to the list and demanding "replies direct, as I don't read this list very often" - a fairly arrogant sort of attitude. [1] If I hit reply-all to an email from a list, it replies to the list and the original poster (OP). If someone else then hits reply-all to that email, it gets sent to me, the OP, and the list. If someone else then hits reply-all to that email, it gets to sent to the second responder, me, the OP, and the list, etc. While some MDAs are smart enough to suppress duplicate delivery, a lot of them arent. The problem actually lies with MUAs not really supporting the concept of mailing lists properly. Mutt, I believe, does it right, but I've not seen sensible support in any other MUA software. Something that let you do "Reply to List" and picked out the list email address,