Off-Forum Replies Happen!

I find the Pine-info forum a bit strange in handling email addresses
for replies. It is very easy to accept the wrong reply option, "All
- yes or no", "Reply-To - yes or no", forget to manually correct the
problem during a reply, & go off forum. No matter which selection is
made, reply is not directly back to the Pine-info forum list.

Most all forums I access always provide the correct forum reply-to
address, this forum drops it mainly for the original sender,
offering the Pine-info list address only as as cc:, or drops it all
together if a Reply-To address is accepted from the sender. Am I
missing something?  Maybe this not a forum - just a list system?

I set Reply-To in my config to include the email address I hail
from, for all general purpose reasons. I see other users here do the
same, not most though.

Yet when I receive a message from the Pine-info forum list, the
email is not from the forum, it is from the sender that posted the
message. To reply to that message can cause a possiblity where the
reply is sent back to the sender & not the forum. Essentially going
off forum, or both forum & sender get tagged. I try to remember, but
forget, to refuse "Reply-To" offerings, & reply to "ALL" - which
still seems wrong, I think periodically is.

Why does the Pine-info list not send out the message with the
Reply-To from Pine-info, or at least not cc:, not a return to the
sender only?  To keep us on list distribution, on forum?

Am I set up wrong?  I see others setup the same & causing the same
results as I just recently observed with my last subject: "Forward
Multipart HTML". Matt & I just emailed off list & I did not do on
purpose, I suspect he did not either.

This is not a complaint. But it seems something is not setup
correctly. Any ideas?  Is this an old subject I missed?

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The Best to You & Yours,
RossARR
[email protected]
mrossarr.nixsyspaus.org/
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