Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Paul Derbyshire" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 00:11:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: List administrivia Reply-to: derbyshire AT globalserve DOT net Message-ID: <3D4F141C.30299.8080EBC1@localhost> In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.2.20020803173329.038a88c8@pop3.cris.com> References: <015901c23b4e$3414ee30$a352a518 AT samsystem> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body On 3 Aug 2002 at 17:40, Randall R Schulz wrote: > As you > say, some posters to this list include a "Reply-To:," usually in an effort > to deflect replies away from their personal email address when sending to > this list. Perhaps some of them should include a "Reply-To:" in an effort to deflect replies away from the list. :P > As Chris Faylor recently pointed out, that's what "Mail-Followup-To:" is > for, and the Cygwin list server does inject that header. There's probably 3 mail clients on earth that understand that header with zero of them native Winblows mail readers. Mine is one of the better Winblows mailers and seems to randomly set a reply's To: as the sender or the list depending on the phase of the moon, the fine structure constant, and the current vital signs telemetered from Schrodinger's cat. > Given the grievously common desire to have responsibility for properly > directing one's mail removed from the replying party... AKA an understandably common desire to have tasks automated as much as possible... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/