[Ironruby-core] Reply-to address

[M. David Peterson]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:21:58 -0600, John Lam (CLR) <jflam at microsoft.com>  
wrote:

> I personally like the current behavior where a Reply will reply to the  
> original poster vs. a Reply All which will reply to the original poster  
> + the list.

This is an age old debate that dates back to the early, early, early days  
of Internet mailing lists.  There's advantages to both.  I have no real  
preference myself.

> This will, of course, spam the original poster on a reply all.

That depends on the back-end software.  *Most* modern list servers parse  
the To: and Cc: fields and remove any addresses it recognizes from the  
distribution list before echoing the message to the list members.  XML-Dev  
and W3C mailing lists are two examples that I can think of that do things  
this way.

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/M:D

M. David Peterson
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