On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 20:11 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I disagree. In general you should use reply to all, and if you want to > reply privately to the sender you should use reply. You can disagree all you like, that doesn't make it right. If you want to participate in mailing lists, and not rub people up the wrong way, you ought to learn how it all works. In general, messages don't have a reply-to header, and replies go to the from address. And it doesn't matter whether there's any CC addresses, as well; replies don't go to CC addresses by default, *you* do something like that by personal choice as something special (i.e. different from normal). When there is a reply-to header, replies go to that, *instead*. And again, it doesn't matter about other headers, it's a *special* reply that you do by choice to reply differently. Reply to all, on those clients that have it, is a *special* function to reply to a message *abnormally*, and what it actually will do will depend on the client in question (e.g. include the CC addresses in the reply, most likely, but it could behave otherwise). Replying to the from address on a message with a reply-to header is an *abnormal* way to reply, and should not happen when you use the normal reply function. The normal reply function should post to the address that replies are *normally* meant to go to, as I've just outlined above (from, or reply-to, as per usual expectations of what they're meant for). It's how they're *supposed* to be used. A CC address (or list of addresses) shows who else got the message, it's not an instruction about anything else. You're not *meant* to reply to them, normally. You can, but you're not instructed to. It merely means these people saw the message too. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
