[sane-devel] well, I'm a retrurning user of sane... got some questions.

technomage technomage-hawke at cox.net
Sat May 24 16:51:41 BST 2003


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hm,
ok, this is something I can do with kmail easily enough. I had to read the man 
pages on it last night.

here's to hoping. :)

On Saturday 24 May 2003 06:51 am, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 24 May 2003 05:59, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 03:53:44PM -0700, technomage wrote:
> >> I am using kmail in linux here,
> >> the reply to list (L) shows both the list and the author.
> >
> >IMHO that's a bug in the mail client. At least in mutt that
> > function is called reply-to-group (or reply-to-all).
>
> It does reply to "all".  If you want just the list, you have to take
> the authors return address out, and I often do, and have done so
> now.  Now, there is an option in the properties of a folder, to set
> it as the home of a mailing list, which may possibly change this
> behaviour.  I haven't explored it for effects. Well, maybe, but I
> see I had the posting address slightly wrong, I'd left out the www.
>
> >> I'm on quite a few other lists and they've often gone to the
> >> option of having "reply-to:" in their firlds because of the
> >> difficulties that not having it can cause with some clients.
> >
> >That has been discussed hundreds of times. There are no new
> > arguments. That's why I pointed to the archive. You may also find
> > some info by searching for "reply-to considered harmful".
> >
> >I don't really care this way or the other. If someone wants to
> > change the way the list operates, discuss that with the mailing
> > list operator David Mosberger <David.Mosberger at acm.org>.
> >
> >It hasn't been changed the last five years so either he hasn't
> > been asked or doesn't like it :-)
>
> Changing it now would surprise everyone! :)
>
> >Bye,
> >  Henning
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