[GNC] List Replies

[Derek Atkins]

Greg,

This topic comes up about once a year or so, usually closer to Spring as
people start working on their taxes and asking for help.

In short, yes, mailman COULD be set up to set the Reply-To the list.  The
downside of that approach is that it makes it MUCH MUCH harder (nearly
impossible) to make an off-list (private) reply.  The decision, which has
been made over and over again over the past 20 years, is that making it
POSSIBLE to make a private reply is more important than making it always
reply-to-list.

This is why every message has a note to remind people to Reply-All.

-derek

On Mon, November 16, 2020 8:06 am, Greg Feneis wrote:
> Hi friends,
>
> A frequent encounter on this list is members replying to an email's
> originator and not to the list server.
>
> In the grand scheme, not a big deal. However, other lists I belong to
> don't
> seem to have this issue.  I'm wondering if a list server setting could
> help.
>
> For this other list I belong to, when I receive an email, it appears to
> come from the originator's name and email address.  But, no matter if I
> use
> reply, or reply-all, the initial email composition only ever begins with
> the list server as the only recipient.
>
> I imagine this feature has to do with the construction of the email
> messages being sent from the server to the list members.
>
> Could our mailman server be set to do the same thing?🤔
>
> Kind regards, Greg Feneis
> (Pixel 3)
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