Change in email replies?

[Tim Wunder]

On Saturday 04 September 2004 8:08 am, someone claiming to be Collins Richey 
wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 13:05:56 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 12:23, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > > I've noticed lately that just clicking on reply will now send a reply
> > > to both the poster and also to the list.
> > >
> > > Is this a recent change or have I gotten something screwed up on this
> > > end?
> >
> > It is in the e-mail itself. It looks to be something each person is
> > doing. Note that the reply in my posts goes only to the list. One is
> > enough for me ;) Anyway, it is set up in the sender's mail program.
>
> I disagree that it is something that the individual person is doing. I
> have noted in the past that occasional emails even with Sylpheed
> exhibit this behavior. It is something in the email header structure,
> but I haven't made an analysis to determine what. Reply worked just
> fine for this email, but I have noted a few replies that tagged on the
> original sender, and I had to remove the second desitination manually.
>

disagreeing with the facts doesn't change the facts.

> It's even possible that this behavior is due to changes that google is
> making behind the scene. I noted yesterday a change in behavior that
> disabled the browser bak key. Well, that was true for about 18 hours;
> now the browser back key works again.

how could a change in google's gmail settings affect bmarsh's e-mail, which 
was not sent from a gmail account?

The simple fact is that bmarsh has a reply-to set in his mailer, which, 
according to the headers in his original message, is kmail 1.6.2, and is 
user-configurable. How gmail configures reply-to could certainly be 
different, i don't have a gmail account to test with. Your e-mail came thru 
with a reply-to set as your gmail account and the list account, so a standard 
reply would reply to both. It is obviously something that gmail is adding to 
you message headers and has nothing to do with the list. Whether it can be 
stopped via user configuration of your gmail account you'll have to figger 
out on your own.

Of course, I reserve the option to be completely wrong on my analysis...

Tim

-- 
Fedora Core 2, Kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2,  KDE 3.2.3, Xorg 6.7.0
 08:30:00 up 5 days, 17:57, 14 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts