[OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

[Ed Loach]

Cobaco wrote:

> nope, a decent email client is supposed to have to following:
> 1) reply to sender -> reply to from adress (or contents of
> reply-to header
>                       if present)
> 2) reply to all -> reply to every adress present
> 3) reply to list -> reply to value of list-post header
> 
> problem with outlook is that it lacks reply-to-list AFAIK
> (probably because
> the built-in approximation of an email list in exchange
> groupware is a
> shared folder with 'discussion' items, not an actual list)

Does all email list software insert a list-post header? I'm on a
couple hosted with LSoft and a load with Yahoo and none of them seem
to, although that may be because they are all configured with the
Reply-To to be the list address already (as, I note, does
OSM-newbies). I ask as I was considering looking into writing an
add-in for the "reply to list" option for Outlook 2007 (which I
use), but if it will only work on the few lists I subscribe to
related to OSM (other than the Newbies one) then I'm not sure it is
worth the effort. I'd rather learn Perl and try and get the
tiles at home client to work more reliably on Vista <bg>.

Not that I'm too bothered, as long as I remember to check "To"
before clicking "Send" (this reply almost went to cobaco only).

Ed