replying to wine-devel?

[Kai Blin]

On Thursday 06 December 2007 02:05:59 King InuYasha wrote:
> I have noticed some unusual behavior in the wine-devel mailing list
> compared to others (e.g. fedora's, etc.). Wine's wine-devel mailing
> list does not automatically set the reply to wine-devel at winehq.org.
> Why is that? If other mailing lists do so, how come Wine's doesn't?
> Personally, I find myself making a mistake sometimes and not adding in
> the wine-devel part because I am used to seeing it automatically set.
> If I remember how emails are set up, isn't there a hidden field called
> reply-to? AFAICT, other mailing lists either override or rewrite this
> field and replace it with the email address of the mailing list.

The reason is explained in http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

In short, the downside to only replying to the author by accident is pretty 
small compared to mistakenly replying to the whole list with something 
intended just for the author.

Cheers,
Kai

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