On 7/21/06 3:09 PM, "Jody Hagins" <jody-boost-011304@atdesk.com> wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:42:41 -0700 "Bryan Ross" <daerid@gmail.com> wrote:
I for one am for this. A few times I've sent mails directly to the author of a posting, and it's been a bit of an annoyance to
1. Create a new message 2. Copy/paste the address of the recipient 3. Copy/paste the context of the message 4. Finally type out the message.
The author of that article makes a good point about mail clients. Any client worth its salt will have some sort of "Reply to All" feature.
I haven't read it, and have no opinion either way, but if your mail client has "reply-to-all" why can't you "reply-to-all" and just remove the boost mailing list entry. That's a lot easier than the steps you say you use currently...
A point of the original message was that putting the Boost e-mail address into the "reply-to" field _replaces_ whatever was there and forces the "from" field to be ignored, so reply-to-all is worthless. The exception is e-mail clients that wrongly always use the "from" field to send back messages. (In the sub-thread about people getting automated vacation messages, the vacationer's client probably does this.) The point of having a "reply-to" field is to help when a user's send and receive addresses differ. -- Daryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie darylew AT hotmail DOT com