Re:

[Sudhakar Chandra <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Devdas Bhagat proclaimed:
> On Wed, 24 May 2000, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
> > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> What ever you do, keep it consistent, 

Believe it or not - there is a rhyme and reason for the different lists
behaving differently.  LIH, LIP and (maybe) LIA all have reply_to set to
$LIST.  LIG does not set reply_to.  The reasoning is that LIG is the kind
of list where advanced users would argue endlessly over some arcane license
or the other.  Advanced users are supposed to be clueful enough to edit
their headers before sending off an email.

> for some mails I get reply to
> sender as reply to list, for others I get it to the individual.
> I wonder, could we have another option to choose the reply to field?

Read http://lists.linux-india.org/lists/LIH/faq.txt  Especially Q7.  I
quote:

"Q7. I hate the mailing list setting the 'Reply-To' field to point back to
the list.  I think this is more evil than Chairman Bill.  How can I receive
posts from the mailing lists without the 'Reply-To' being set?

A. Send an email to majordomo2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words 'set
linux-india-help noreplyto' (without the quotes) in the body (not subject)
of the email."

> Plus the fact that I have to clean up the to field every time I hit
> reply all. Worse case is for multiple recipients. Its just irritating.

If you cannot take half a minute to edit the headers, why should people
take a minute or so to read your responses?

> I generally reply to the list, rarely to the sender. If I want to reply
> to the original poster individually, I can select him individually.

That is a half-full half-empty debate.  The beauty of majordomo2 is that it
allows the *user* to choose whether they want reply_to to be munged.  Mj2
is very versatile.  You ought to read the documentation on it some time. 
Lots of neat features.

Thaths
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