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[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 09:30 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
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> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 16:35 +0930, Tim wrote:
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> >> You're misusing reply-to, you get to reap the consequences for it.
> > I wish we could discuss this off list but you have made that
> > impossible.  What I ma asking you to do is to use the reply to list
> > feature of your email program. It does have one does it not?
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> You both appear to be using Evolution, so if there's a list reply in
> your mail client Aaron, then there should be on in Tim's.  (I have no
> idea of Evolution's features.  I took a look at it years back and it's
> similarity to Outlook combined with it's lack of support for inline
> PGP made it a very short look.)
> 
> > Somehow when I reply to a list post the post goes only to the list.
> > Why doesn't your replies do that?
> 
> One problem is that you have your address specified in the Reply-to:
> header and the list doesn't strip this.  It simply adds the list
> address to this.  So the reply-to in your messages looks like this:
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> Reply-To: akonstam at sbcglobal.net,
>         For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> 
> Tim doesn't do this and his address is not in the reply-to.  Since
> your address is the same in the reply-to as it is in the from header,
> adding a reply-to is pointless.  If you remove that, you may find that
> you get less list mail directed to your personal address.
> 
Your analysis is clear and I have removed the reply to address. Check
this message to see if that has happened. I hope everyone will be happy
now. 
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net