[ECOS] Reply-To?

[ECOS] Reply-To?

[Davies, Greg]

I'm not sure if this is the right list for this, but it's the only one
I'm subscribed to at the moment. When I hit reply in Outlook, the
message only goes to the person who wrote it. I have to hit Reply to All
to get it to to the list. Either way I have to manually add or remove an
email address to get one copy to the list and not more than one to the
person I'm responding to. 

The bad part is that this is easy to forget, and I notice many times
where the more senior people on the list ask the more junior to please
respond to the list, and not to them personally. It would be really
convenient to have the list software configured to add a Reply-To
header. 

I realise this is sometimes considered a bad idea, but that's mostly
because people end up sending private emails to the entire list. I may
be wrong, but this doesn't strike me as the kind of list where there's a
lot of private messaging going on. 

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[ECOS] Re: Reply-To?

[Michelle Konzack]

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Am 2008-04-21 08:23:50, schrieb Davies, Greg:
> I'm not sure if this is the right list for this, but it's the only one
> I'm subscribed to at the moment. When I hit reply in Outlook, the

This is the normal behaviour.

> message only goes to the person who wrote it. I have to hit Reply to All
> to get it to to the list. Either way I have to manually add or remove an
> email address to get one copy to the list and not more than one to the
> person I'm responding to. 

To send to lists, there is a Function called "Reply-To-List" which
maybe forgoten by MicroSoft to be implemented in there Software.  :-)

> The bad part is that this is easy to forget, and I notice many times
> where the more senior people on the list ask the more junior to please
> respond to the list, and not to them personally. It would be really
> convenient to have the list software configured to add a Reply-To
> header. 

Adding a Reply-To: header harm mailinglists...  and is not the expected
behaviour on thousands of Technical Mailinglists across the net.

> I realise this is sometimes considered a bad idea, but that's mostly

Not only sometimes...

> because people end up sending private emails to the entire list. I may

If you modify "Reply-To:" and I respond by hiting "Reply" my private E-Mail
to you would go to the List instead to you.  Do you find this funny?

> be wrong, but this doesn't strike me as the kind of list where there's a
> lot of private messaging going on. 

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    24V Electronic Engineer
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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