The last time I set up a mailing list, the list manager was insistent that I did not want to set the "reply-to" address to the list address, noting that doing that removed any "reply-to" field that the sender put in there, which was a loss of important data for those users who put data in that header field. It also pointed out that it made private messages harder to do, and gave it a nonzero probability that you would respond to the group when you intended to respond to the individual. The configuration pages linked to a newsgroup post somewhere of someone ranting about the practice and proving that it was the wrong thing to do.
Nevertheless, I selected that option and I will do it again. Because unless you choose that option, the most efficient way for me to reply to the group is to do a reply all. (Well, it was. This new version of Thunderbird has a "reply to group" option. Woot!) At that point, I have to trim the recipient list in order to send it only to the group, which is almost always what I'm trying to do. It's a pain, so most of the time I don't bother.
Since most responses to list messages are intended for the list and not to the individual who wrote the message you're responding to, not abusing "reply-to" in that fashion deoptimizes the typical case in order to be technically correct. That is, in my opinion, a dumb thing to do in order to preserve the information in the rarely-used reply-to field.
I mention this because this list is set up in the technically correct way, and I have several times sent messages to individuals when I intended them to go to the list. That is MY particular annoyance.
On 04/14/2010 07:54 AM, Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:
Only 4 lines of sig. The 2 dashes are the delimiter put in by the e-mail client. Could be worse. I could put the sig at the top! Also bugs me when people dont crop the recipient list.
On 14-Apr-10 04:39, Steve Meuse wrote:
Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF expunged (nigel@ngunn.net):
Top posting is the better option.
My favorite annoyance are people who post 1 line of text but have 5 lines of a .sig :)
!DSPAM:117,4bc5f018191152065711076!