Thanks to Mr. Muhlberger for his clarity where I was obscure (through
ignorance); at least I can take a bit of satisfaction from my incorrect
understanding when I know it prompted a reply from someone who really
understands what's going on.
It seems the best advice is just always to take a moment to check the
contents of the "To:" and "Cc:" fields in the header of any out-going
message -- an easy principle to which to subscribe, but rather harder to
put into practice, I've found.
W.
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---At 10:32 AM 2/17/99 +1000, Ralf Muhlberger <ralf@dstc.edu.au> wrote (in part):
>Actually, configuring the client program is not possible for this >result. The configuration is done for a default reply to field in >the email that is forwarded by the mailing list program. There is a >very thorough article on how this should be set up, and why at: > http://www.halisp.net/halisp/reply-to-harmful.html >To summarize, there is a process called reply-to munging that would >allow the emails to be sent to the list rather than the original >sender when you hit [reply]. Most email programs give you a choice >of [reply to all] and [reply to sender] (or some similar naming, eg >[reply-to-group] and [reply-to-author]) anyway though, where >the reply to all would include the mailing list. Reply-to munging breaks >the [reply to sender/author] function and is considered bad. > >As our list admin stated, you can check this yourself and please take >the time to do what you think is the right thing :-) > >Ralf
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