Re: How To Ask Questions - Some List Guidelines

"Chris Shiflett" <shiflett@php.net> wrote in message news:20030714203756.60494.qmail@web14309.mail.yahoo.com... > --- Burhan Khalid <phplist@meidomus.com> wrote: > > Next thing, please add a reply-to header that has the lists mailing > > address. > > This is a topic of debate, and many people (including myself) would urge people > to ignore this advice. Mangling mail headers can have bad consequences, and > there is very little reason to do so. If people want to reply to the sender, > they can. If they want to reply to all, they can do that, too. Intelligent mail > clients even allow you to reply to list. > > Mangling the Reply-To header just screws all of this up. It's as annoying as > those phone number form fields that automatically tab over. > > Chris > > ===== > Become a better Web developer with the HTTP Developer's Handbook > http://httphandbook.org/ You make an interesting point however the problem is people reply to this list using Email, Newsgroup and Web-based clients. The clients don't all put the same information in their headers and they don't all understand the same headers. If it were strictly a newsgroup list or strictly an email list or strictly a web-based list then Yes you would have a valid point. But if the list is to remain open to these different portals then you are going to have to live with the occasional broken thread. Case in point... => ME <=... I only recently moved from an Email client to a Newsgroup client to view this list and I had no idea what-so-ever that any of my replies were breaking threads. It was a real eye opener. :-) - Kevin