Re: php-general as REPLY TO

On 30 Jun 2003 at 22:34, Derick Rethans wrote: > > I disagree with you Derick. In many (most? all?) programs, the > > reply- all function will send an email back to the list **and** one > > to the author. This wastes bandwidth needlessly, in my opinion. I > > receive the messages to the list and do not need to receive a > > message sent directly to me. > > You have procmail for that. There is some very good explanation for > this, see > > http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/faq/maillist.html#munge_reply-to First, Derick, not everyone has access to procmail. In fact, most folk **do not** have access to procmail. Second, I still think it antithetical to the whole idea of a public mailing list to set the reply-to default to anything other than the mailing list. Since I see no evil coming out of this, nor any misuse, I fail to see the problem. As the owner of a mailing list, I am quite familiar with the webpage you referenced; to my mind, it doesn't make any valid arguments. Having said this, I suspect that you and I will continue to disagree, which is perfectly okay. If this list changes the default I will be happy. If it doesn't, I will learn to adjust. One request I make is that folk, including you, Derick, refrain from sending replies to my email to both the list *and* my personal inbox. There's no need to waste the bandwidth. Doug