[ale] a request for list change

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 11:03 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> I personally liked the way it was configured before, at least then I
> could select reply to all, and the cut out the email addresses I didn't
> want it to go to.  As it is now, I can not respond to an individual
> without manually entering the address...

That sounds like your mailer.  Note that I replied to all and your address 
is in the To field.

Michael

> My preference would be that it would be the way it used to be, that is,
> the From was the original poster, the To: would include ale.  This way,
> you can respond to the list or poster easily.
>
> I'd also be acceptable to having the From be ale and the To be the
> original poster, but I think that would cause posters to get the email
> twice, which would be ugly.
>
> I know we beat this one up pretty good before, but it's stung a couple
> of us when attempting to respond to the poster, only to see our posts go
> to the list.
>
> So dare we bring this discussion up again???
>
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > I know this has been discussed here before, but ...
> >
> >
> > It is incredibly irritating that the headers have been so rewritten on
> > ALE mail that I can't reply offline to someone without extracting the
> > original mail message, composing a new message and dropping the
> > original message.
> >
> > I have a big disagreement with the language logic that the mailing
> > list app is using. The Sender is the original author. If I reply to
> > sender, my em,ail should go to them, not the list. If I "reply to all"
> > it should go to the list without a duplicate being sent to the sender,
> > it should come through the list mail.
> >
> > I haven't had the time this week to dig through RFC's on email header
> > protocol, but I have dug in the past on Evolution's handling of email.
> > It seems to be rather RFC-compliant. Which tells me that the behavior
> > of the mailing list software may be bending some protocols a bit more
> > than I am happy with.
> >
> > grr. <with recognition that _I_ don't run the list software and am
> > very thankful for the efforts of those that do, and would also
> > understand if "this is the way these things work" even if _I_ don't
> > like it>

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