I actually still prefer Reply-To being set.<div>The "Reply to all method" is flawed and in 99% of cases it forces extra work to do a simple thing.</div><div>The simple fact is on almost all mail clients(every single one I have tried) this has the effect that you reply to the mail list and 99% that is exactly what you want to happen.</div>
<div>Using "Reply to all" adds multiple addresses and I need to clear the senders email address because otherwise he would get duplicate emails. Which I think is just impolite plain and simple. After clearing the original senders email then one has to move the only email address you really want(namely <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; ">) from CC to TO.</span></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>The effect is that in some cases it takes even longer to muddle around with the email address field than writing the email itself. </div><div><br></div><div>The simple fact is that most people expect to write to the list when hiting reply. It's what usually happens on most mailing lists.</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Dmitrii Dimandt <<a href="mailto:dmitriid@gmail.com">dmitriid@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Jul 11, 2008, at 11:05 PM, Alain O'Dea wrote:<br>
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> Interesting article. Thank you Lev. I had not realized the side-<br>
> effects were so severe, but upon review they make perfect sense. I<br>
> will use Reply All and maybe even get at the admins of other lists to<br>
> remove this reply-to munging.<br>
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</div>Also try these:<br>
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Reply-to considered useful:<br>
<a href="http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml" target="_blank">http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml</a><br>
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Reply-to still considered harmful, really:<br>
<a href="http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html" target="_blank">http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html</a><br>
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> On 10-Jul-08, at 10:59 PM, Lev Walkin wrote:<br>
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>><br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html" target="_blank">http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html</a><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Alain O'Dea wrote:<br>
>>> It looks like the list-serv for erlang-questions is leaving Reply-<br>
>>> To blank instead of setting or overriding it to be "<a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br>
>>> " as I would expect. This has lead me on multiple occasions to<br>
>>> reply to the poster directly instead of replying to the thread. I<br>
>>> find it very confusing.<br>
>>> Is erlang-questions setting Reply-To properly?<br>
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