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[Ingo Klöcker]

On Saturday 12 June 2010, Jerry wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:40:28 -0400
> 
> Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8 at verizon.net> articulated:
> > I see no way to do that. I have a Reply button and a Reply All
> > button and no others. There is no such button on that screen that
> > allows diddling buttons. Thunderbird 2.0.0.16, which is the latest
> > for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
> 
> Unfortunately, it might prove to be academic anyway. Unlike several
> other lists that I am subscribed to, this mailing list does not use a
> "Reply-To:" in the e-mail headers. It would definitely facilitate
> replying to list mail if the maintainer(s) of this list configured
> the mailer to insert such a header that pointed to this list.

There is such a header:
List-Post: <mailto:gnupg-users at gnupg.org>

Reply-to is intended to be used by the sender to state his preference 
for replies. If he prefers off-list replies then he should set it to his 
address and if he prefers on-list replies then he should set it to the 
mailing list address. (In fact, there's also the Mail-followup-to header 
which is even better suited for this than the Reply-to header.)

IMNSHO, it's not up to the mailing list admins to dictate where replies 
to my posts should go. Therefore, the mailing list software should not 
touch the Reply-to header.


> Conversely, many MUAs support the "reply to list" function that
> should work correctly on this list.

Exactly. It works correctly because those MUAs use the above mentioned 
standardized (RFC 2369) List-Post header.


Regards,
Ingo
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