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Message no. 1
From: George Metz <W0lfstar@***.COM>
Subject: Postcards From The List...
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 06:14:05 -0400
What the frag's up with several of the people on the list? I keep getting
mail from the same people that is sent out via the list, but replies are to
the individual, instead of back at the list. Minor I know, but I've really
gotta wonder about it. Well? What's up?

Wolfstar, trying not to point fingers....
Message no. 2
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Postcards From The List...
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:22:10 +0100
|
| What the frag's up with several of the people on the list? I keep getting
|mail from the same people that is sent out via the list, but replies are to
|the individual, instead of back at the list. Minor I know, but I've really
|gotta wonder about it. Well? What's up?

It looks like people have their "Reply-To" fields set.

Please people, check your mailer settings and make sure that this field is
left BLANK.

If it isn't, the listserver ignores it, and all replies to your posts will
go to YOU instead of to the list.

Reply-To SHOULD be left blank, as it's the receivers e-mail program that
fills that field...
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|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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Message no. 3
From: Mark Steedman <M.J.Steedman@***.RGU.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Postcards From The List...
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:26:17 GMT
George Metz writes

> What the frag's up with several of the people on the list? I keep getting
> mail from the same people that is sent out via the list, but replies are to
> the individual, instead of back at the list. Minor I know, but I've really
> gotta wonder about it. Well? What's up?
>
Normally when you send email your mail programme puts your address in
the reply to field so the recipient need only reply to your message.
However you are getting the mail from the list and not wanting to
reply to the sender. Well if when posting to the list you leave the
reply to field blank the list processor sticks the list address in as
it distributes the message but if the field contains something
already it does not in which case 'reply' goes only to te sender not
the list.
There are three solutions
1) always check manually where your replies are going and set it
manually if required.

2) Change the default reply to field in your mailer to something
which works, most emails have quite a few headers one of which you
will probably find is reliably set to the list address for list mail
and the senders for non list mail.

3) try and pursuade every listmember to leave thier reply to fields
blank.
Some of are not very keen on this option, though i think i'm
the only one that has said so as this account is work based and i
send a moderate ammount of email about that is work related. I
therefore don't want to mess about with the default settings and have
a problem someday with 'an important email' as a result, Shadowrn is
leisure so doesn't get rated. Also the reason i don't trust email
filters and don't use a sig file although set up properly they are
usually ok you will make mistakes. Every month or two one of our
Alias using list members mucks up and accidently sends a 'work'
signature to the list containing all sorts of details they never
meant to leave in the list archieves :) Annoying it might be at times
but a few messages i have to bounce back to the list are a lot less
annoying than a faiure with a work related mail

Mark
Message no. 4
From: Jonathan Hurley <jhurley1@************.EDU>
Subject: Re: Postcards From The List...
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:55:55 -0400
On Friday, August 08, 1997 08:22, Spike[SMTP:u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK]
wrote:
> |
> | What the frag's up with several of the people on the list? I keep
getting
> |mail from the same people that is sent out via the list, but replies are
to
> |the individual, instead of back at the list. Minor I know, but I've
really
> |gotta wonder about it. Well? What's up?
>
> It looks like people have their "Reply-To" fields set.
>
> Please people, check your mailer settings and make sure that this field
is
> left BLANK.
>
> If it isn't, the listserver ignores it, and all replies to your posts
will
> go to YOU instead of to the list.
>
> Reply-To SHOULD be left blank, as it's the receivers e-mail program that
> fills that field...
> --
>
Query, how is my reply-to field set? From empirical evidence, it seems to
be clear, but a friend of mine (who is also on the list) is using the same
mailer I am (ms-exchange) and can't figure out how to clear the reply-to
field.

--
Quicksilver rides again
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Those who would give up a little freedom for security
deserve neither freedom nor security
-Benjamin Franklin
Yeah, I have Attention Deficit Dis - Hey, look at that butterfly!
Jonathan Hurley (mailto:jhurley1@************.edu)
Message no. 5
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@****.ORG>
Subject: Re: Postcards From The List...
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 12:21:01 -0600
Jonathan Hurley wrote:
|
| > Reply-To SHOULD be left blank, as it's the receivers e-mail program that
| > fills that field...
|
| Query, how is my reply-to field set? From empirical evidence, it seems to
| be clear, but a friend of mine (who is also on the list) is using the same
| mailer I am (ms-exchange) and can't figure out how to clear the reply-to
| field.

Your reply-to field isn't set. My mailer (good ole ELM) recognized
that that post came from Shadowrn, and thus replied back to
Shadowrn. What a reply-to field does is over-ride that. In the case
that someone sets their reply-to field ELM ignores the the from field
and uses the reply-to address for, you guessed it, replies.

What most people don't understand when the first see a reply-to
option in their mailer, is that it's there if they want replies to
their posts to go somewhere else (other than where they sent it
from). For example, if I'm at work send a message to someone, but
there's a policy about receiving personnal email, then I could set
the reply-to field to my AOL address (if I had an AOL address :).
But since most mailers don't explain that, users put their address in
the reply-to field. Normaly it doesn't cause a problem, until you
post to a listserv :)

-David
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1068/homepage.htm
--
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing
which ones to keep."
Message no. 6
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Postcards From The List...
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 16:45:09 +0100
|Query, how is my reply-to field set? From empirical evidence, it seems to
|be clear, but a friend of mine (who is also on the list) is using the same
|mailer I am (ms-exchange) and can't figure out how to clear the reply-to
|field.

I've got no idea about MS exchange. (Thankfully)
:)

I use ELM.
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______________________________________________________________________________
|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ o+ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ |
|5++ X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! :( |
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