Bob Zenhausern wrote:
>
> It is the mailers like Eudora that are dumb in that they automatically
> put the reply-to field to the user with no simple way to override it.
> If you use the reply to list, ignore, you are taking away the senders
> right to say that replies to this message should not go to the list, but
> will be of interest only to me.  I use it to send replies to
> surveys and votes to a special mail address and not to the list.  Eudora
> (unless recent copies have fixed the problem) should not dictate to the
> whole Internet, but should clean up its own act.
 
I've got Eudora to access a different account, and it took me about
an hour to discover it, but I eventually did.  The problem is that
you can't find it by looking for "headers" in the help; you need
to know to search for "ExtraHeaders."  I believe that you can
set this either in EUDORA.INI (?) or as an environment variable.
(This is Windows NT and may or may not apply to other versions.)
 
Of course it's a pain if you want to send two messages, and set
Reply-To: in one but not the other; you have to exit and (un)set
the environment variable in between or edit the init file.
 
I have "List,Respect" set up for my list now; we have several
on-line games posted to the list, but *replies* to the list
spoil the games to varying degrees, so I'm trying to get the
game posters to set Reply-To: but some (e.g., VAX mail users)
can't find any way.  Consensus is not to change it to "Sender"
because that messes up the default for discussions.
 
Here's an idea for future LISTSERV versions (E.T. are you
listening? :) -- how about if the first line of the message body is
        Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
followed by a blank line, then this be treated as if it were
in the RFC822 headers?  That would get around the idiotic mailer
problem for those who know what a Reply-To header is and when
they might want to use it.
 
Cheers,
Stan Ryckman ([log in to unmask])