[pchelpers] Re: Reply To Address

Hi Scott

> CH> Thunderbird permits assigning a 'reply to' address. I have been
> CH> searching to find how that is set. Sure that I did it one time but
> CH> now I am looking for the same feature in MS OUTLOOK and can't seem
> CH> to find it in either Thunderbird or MS OUTLOOK.
> 
> In Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, go to Tools, Email Accounts, Next,
> Change, More Settings, and it's the bottom item.
> 
> When editing a message, click on the Options, button, and put a
> checkmark for "Have replies sent to:".
> 
> You should avoid using this option with mailing lists, since it can
> mess things up quite nicely; you might get private replies becoming
> public, or public replies becoming private, or some such.

Not sure what you mean. This is a per-account setting, not something one 
can set to apply only to a mailing list. Or are you saying this?: "Don't 
use this if/since you are on any mailing lists".

Many mailing lists automatically assign a separate reply-to address, and 
those that don't, produce either the mailing list's address or that of 
the sender when clicking Reply. Even if some mailing lists transmit the 
sender's reply-to address and not the address s/he used to send it, this 
does not cause more confusion than is normal with mailing lists. In 
other words, neither the embarrassing case of a private reply 
accidentally becoming public nor the annoying case of a public reply 
being only private is probably affected by the sender supplying a 
different reply-to address than his/her normal address.

The embarrassing situation is simply caused by people clicking Reply and 
not looking what the default for the list produces. The default is 
different for different lists but would seem to be unaffected by the 
sender's settings. Some lists send to the sender by default when 
pressing Reply (and require using Reply All and deleting the private 
address), which seems illogical but is based on some stupid standard or 
old habit. This illogical habit then causes the embarrassing situation 
when absentmindedly clicking on Reply in other lists and forgetting that 
this logically produces a public reply.



-- 
-------list-services-below-----------
Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig>
Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi
List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers
PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig
Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig
Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.

Other related posts: