gmail seems to consume these 'double replies' transparently w/ its 'conversations'. i never notice them :) sorry to everyone who gets hit w/ the extra mail when i hit reply-to-all. youll have to forgive my laziness, its just easier that way. -nathan On 7/29/07, Lester Caine <lester@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Daniel Brown wrote: > > As a relatively-new contributor to this list (read: under 2 > > years), I realize that I have no business requesting a change, but > > I'll breech etiquette and hope for the best. > > > > Can we update the filters on the list to have the reply-to address > > header marked to the php-general address? > > At the risk of extending the religious war .... > > I'm with you Daniel, but I think it has been decided that what we ACTUALLY > need is a fix at the reception end. Some email clients will allow you to > set a > reply address for a folder ( apparently ) which is actually what *I* could > do > with, so all email goes in the php-general folder, and when I hit > reply > I get a list reply address, just like I get a news list address on news > folders. Unfortunately the other religious war erupts when you ask for > that at > the client end and many of the same people who INSIST that replies should > be > changed to be private then insist that its not appropriate to allow the > client > end to change them back :( > > So until SeaMonkey adds the facility to set a folder reply address I'm > stuck > like you with remembering to hit 'reply all' on the relatively few lists > that > still work the old school way ;) Actually rather than doing that I TRY to > be > nice and replace the private reply address with the list address - so I > don't > get those duplicate replies that are not getting filtered out when someone > 'reply alls' my posts ;) > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk > MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
