[talk-au] mailing lists and replying to them.

[John Smith]

--- On Thu, 6/8/09, Sam Couter <sam at couter.id.au> wrote:

> I understand but will never accept the opposing position as
> I use a mail
> client that does handle reply-to-list correctly and have no
> sympathy for
> people who choose to use poor quality software when better
> alternatives
> exist.

As I said, there is relatively few software options that handle this correctly, and none of the popular ones do.

Oh and yahoo mail filters keep catching emails as spam because I can only imagine it's mail coming from myself to myself, but it's also tripping up on others because the from address doesn't match allow hosts that email can be sent from a domain.

So while you can be up on your high horse the rest of us prefer to be practical and just get on with it.

Since I wrote that I found out numerous of the openstreetmap lists do set the reply to field.

Apart from Sam does anyone else have an issue with the list reply-to field being set to the mailing list, not having it always confuses new people, and I really can't be bothered typing in the address all the time so I always hit reply to all, which probably generates twice the email needed.