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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/31/2012 02:09 PM, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012, Bhuvaneswaran A <bhuvan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If a subscriber reply to a mailing list message, it's sent to the
>> author only. Each subscriber should use "Reply to All" every time, to
>> post a reply to mailing list.
>>
>> Can you please configure the mailing list and set reply-to header as
>> mailing list address, openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. With this setup,
>> if the user click "reply" in his email client, the message is sent to
>> mailing list, instead of the author.
> 
> As a counter-point, I'd prefer to keep the list as it is and *not* munge
> Reply-To.
> 
> Since Chip summarizes it better than I can, I'll link to his article
> '"Reply-To" Munging Considered Harmful':
> 
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

++

Just use a decent email program (i.e. not Outlook) that gives you things
like Reply to List.

-jay