[PD] [OT]admin: reply-to (was:if-function)

Adam Lindsay atl at comp.lancs.ac.uk
Fri Apr 4 01:06:42 CEST 2003


Nick Morrison said this at Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:51:43 +0930:

>Believe me, it's a thousand times worse when you accidentally send a
>private reply to the list, because the reply-to has been changed and just
>pressing reply makes the mail go somewhere unexpected..
>
>The 'other lists' have it wrong :-)

Agreed. I've administered a fair number of lists in my time, and I always
avoid the reply-to field. I've also sent a fair number of "overly candid"
private replies to public lists because of reply-to's being set on other
lists.

adam

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