It's not a charged issue, it's simply a harmful but entirely unnecessary practice. For a much more eloquent explanation, see for example http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Besides, not all email clients have a reply-to-sender feature (mine - Apple Mail - for example doesn't), but practically all have a reply- to-all feature. -hilmar On Mar 30, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Erik Hatcher wrote: > On Mar 30, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Daniel Chudnov wrote: > >> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Ross Singer wrote: >> >>> Well that probably didn't need to go to the whole world, but there >>> you go. >> >> /me votes for turning off reply-to munging on this list. > > -1 - replies should go to lists. :) i know, i know, its a very > charged issue, but i feel strongly that an e-mail list is about > community and i can easily hit reply-to-sender in my mail interface > if i want to send something privately. and i am very aware that > others feel strongly on the opposite side of this issue. > > Erik -- =========================================================== : Hilmar Lapp -:- Durham, NC -:- hlapp at duke dot edu : ===========================================================