#50: Mailing lists should "reply to all" by default -----------------------+---------------------------------------------------- Reporter: eschnett | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: Other | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
Comment (by hinder):
As far as I know, the mail server at the ISP will recognise that the message ids are the same and won't deliver it twice. I certainly don't get the message twice, and a little googling reveals that this is a known problem. I agree that a Reply-To-List option in all email clients would be good, but since not all email clients have that, I don't think we can make it part of the solution. Apple Mail does not have it.
Setting Reply-To to the mailing list would solve this problem, encourage discussion on the mailing list, won't need us to "educate" users about an obscure feature of their mail client, won't need people to change their mail client in order to use the list conveniently, and will work for everyone.