<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Last I checked most mailing list software does not send a message to a recipient if they were already in the To:, Cc:, or Bcc: header. Or, at least most lists can be configured to have that behavior.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd be interested to know if you received two copies of this message, as I hit "Reply All" in my mailer (Apple's Mail.app).</div><div><br></div><div>-- Samuel</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jul 14, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Jon Gretar Borgthorsson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">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;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> On Jul 11, 2008, at 11:05 PM, Alain O'Dea wrote:<br> <br> > 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> ><br> <br> <br> </div>Also try these:<br> <br> 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> <br> 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> <br> <br> :)<br> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> <br> <br> <br> > On 10-Jul-08, at 10:59 PM, Lev Walkin wrote:<br> ><br> >><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> >>> _______________________________________________<br> >>> erlang-questions mailing list<br> >>> <a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br> >>> <a href="http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions" target="_blank">http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions</a><br> >><br> ><br> > _______________________________________________<br> > erlang-questions mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br> > <a href="http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions" target="_blank">http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions</a><br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> erlang-questions mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br> <a href="http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions" target="_blank">http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div> _______________________________________________<br>erlang-questions mailing list<br><a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br>http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>