Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/11/09/03:27:56
On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> My mailer has a reply-to-all feature that sends
> the reply to the sender and all other recipients, so I used to be able
> to use this to reply to both the sender and the list. But "Reply-To"
> overrides it, so now if I want to reply to the original sender I have to
> copy-and-paste manually, which is inconvenient and error-prone (the text
> is small and sometimes I miss a character).
If yours is a decent mailer, it will allow you to decide whether or not
to use Reply-to instead of From. This is what I use nowadays when I want
to reply to both the poster and the news group. (It does require that I
look at the headers to spot a possible anti-spam, but I've got used to
live with that, given the paranoia that surrounds this topic.)
> I realize that Usenet etiquette asks that posters read the fora to which
> they post, rather than requesting personal replies, but I view this as
> being somewhat harsh in cases.
Direct email replies are much faster, so people who are desperate to hear
solutions for their problems will usually like the direct reply.
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