Re: reply to header insertion
Patrick J. Horgan (pjh70@eng.amdahl.com)
Mon, 8 Aug 94 09:19:52 PDT
Your reply-to is malformed. It says ids@uow.edu.au@uow.edu.au
I'd like to present a couple of considerations about an automatice reply-to:
header.
Although most of the mailing lists I subscribe to don't do this, a major
problem on most of them is inappropriate replies to the whole group when
the user is really talking to only one person. It greatly increases the
noise to signal ratio.
Most mailers (if not all, I'm just being careful;) allow the user a choice
to reply to the sender, or to all recipients. This gives flexibility that
will be taken away by your decision. The users of the list have the
capability of sending to the whole list without your REPLY-TO: change.
Please reconsider, I think it will negatively impact the list.
Patrick
These opinions are mine, and not Amdahl's (except by coincidence;).
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