Matthias Weingart wrote: > >Sorry to start a new thread about that crazy out of office messages. I think >there is a easy way to solve that. Each posting is sent to the list members >with a "From:" and "Reply To:" address of the original poster included. And >the OOP messages are sent directly to that "reply to"-address. Why not >changing the "Reply-To" header? > >This is how I get a message posted by me from the list: >From: Matthias Weingart <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: "Si-List (E-mail)" <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >But it should be: >From: Matthias Weingart <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: "Si-List (E-mail)" <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: "Si-List (E-mail)" <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >It is also more common to let the people post back to the list, rather than >replying to the original poster only. > > This issue seems to be cyclic in that it reappears every few years. The last time we visited this issue we tried switching the 'Reply-To' header to point to the list rather than to the sender. Quite a bit of confusion (and discontent) ensued as I remember. Finally we polled the list membership on the issue and had about 75% in favor of keeping it set as-is (i.e., the 'Reply-To' header points to the sender). Based on past experience, I'm planning on keeping the settings as they are for the time being unless convinced that some alternate is better. -Ray Anderson (si-list admin) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: http://www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu