- From: Johan Zeeman <joe.zeeman@tlcdelivers.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:56:04 -0500
- To: "ZIG" <www-zig@w3.org>
In my mailer (Outlook Express) I see these message headers (in both the screen display and the message source): From: Mike Taylor To: Joe Zeeman cc: www-zig@w3.org in *both* copies of the message. There are 2 things I dislike about the present arrangement: I get 2 copies of replies to my messages; it's a hassle to send a reply to the list only (the most common action in my case) because I have to delete the cc: and type a new address in the To: . And it's different from the way all the other lists I belong to behave. And I have to remember to click Reply All. j. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Taylor" <mike@tecc.co.uk> To: <joe.zeeman@tlcdelivers.com> Cc: <www-zig@w3.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 9:25 AM Subject: Re: Replying to the list > This is a bit of an Old Chestnut. There are a lot of reasons why it's > generally Good Behaviour for lists _not_ to set their Reply-To: > address to be the whole list, but leave it as the originator of the > original message. They are neatly summarised at > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > among other places. > > > The worst part is that the list appears not even in the "to" part, > > but in the "cc". > > Not sure what you mean by this. In my copy of the message that I'm > currenty replying to, the "To:" line says <www-zig@w3.org> and there > is no "Cc:" line. Isn't that what you see on messages posted to the > list? > > (Of course, if someone mails _you_, and sends a "Cc:" to the list -- > as I'm doing now -- then the message with be "To:" you and "Cc:"d to > the list. That's what you'd want and expect, isn't it?) > > _/|_ _______________________________________________________________ > /o ) \/ Mike Taylor <mike@miketaylor.org.uk> www.miketaylor.org.uk > )_v__/\ "He looks around; he sees angels in the architecture, > spinning in infinity" -- Paul Simon, "Call Me Al"
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