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Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.0.20050102162917.046e9e80@pop.prospeed.net>
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 16:42:20 -0500
To: "David Christensen" <dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT com>,
   "'Cygwin List'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: suggestion -- mailer replies should go to Cygwin list
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At 03:57 PM 1/2/2005, you wrote:
>Suggestion -- When a user selects a message sent to the Cygwin mailing
>in their mailer and activates the mailer "Reply" feature, the reply
>should be addressed to the Cygwin list, not the original poster.
>

On this list, if you want any replies to your posts to go only to the list,
you need to set your "Reply-To" to point to the list.  

>David
>
>
>p.s. I looked at the headers for my "Subject: expand changing DOS line
>endings to Unix line endings" sent "Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:27:55
>-0800" when it came back from the list.  I'm not going to post the
>headers here because the senior people on this list flame anyone who
>publicly posts e-mail addresses, so take a look at the headers in your
>mailer.  I think the problem is that the "From" field shows my address
>and/or that there is no "Reply-To" address going to the mailing list
>(?).  I assume this is to reduce the amount of spam sent to the list
>(?).  There is a "Mail-Followup-To" pointing to the list address, but I
>guess my mailer doesn't use that (?).

Yes, not all (many?) email clients pay attention to the "Mail-Followup-To".
Anyway, see my comment above about "Reply-To".


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