{"id":228,"date":"2006-01-08T03:54:06","date_gmt":"2006-01-08T08:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/index.php\/reply-to-munging-useful-and-good"},"modified":"2006-01-08T03:54:46","modified_gmt":"2006-01-08T08:54:46","slug":"reply-to-munging-useful-and-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/reply-to-munging-useful-and-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply-to munging useful and good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I get a message from a mailing list, and I reply to that message, the message I send should automatically be addressed to that list. That is how it ought to work. Some people, for reasons which do not make sense and which have never made sense, think that you should need to manually address replies to mailing lists (or hit a special &#8220;reply to list&#8221; button available in some email clients). That&#8217;s idiotic.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than go through all of the arguments (not that arguments should be needed for such a self-evident issue), I present the following brief article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/consulting\/reply-to_munging_useful.html\">Reply-To Munging Considered Useful<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let me be clear about this: I have been using email since the 1980s. I know what the relevant RFCs and issues are. <strong>A reply to an email from a mailing list should go to that list.<\/strong> Period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I get a message from a mailing list, and I reply to that message, the message I send should automatically be addressed to that list. That is how it ought to work. 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