Re: Off-Forum Replies Happen!

I have made this error not once but many times and I think it goes over to
Alpine as well.  I thought it was just me.




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