>In my lists I have the reply in the header set to: >* Reply-to= List,Respect > >I thought that would automatically send all replies to the list. Some people >when they hit the reply key and it is a message that I have sent to the list, >their reply only comes to me when, in fact, they wanted it to go to the list. > >Is it my setup of the header or their mail programs? It's a combination of your mailing list setup and the way you have configured your email client. * Reply-to= List,Respect means that replies to most messages will go to the mailing list. However, if someone sends a message containing a Reply-To: field, that will override the default, and replies to the message will go to (presumably) the sender. This little-used feature allows for situations where a person, say, wants to poll the members of a mailing list and post a summary of the responses later; clearly, in most cases it wouldn't be appropriate for replies to the original poll to be sent to the mailing list. Here's the abbreviated header of the message you sent to LISTOWN-L: >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-BeyondMail-Priority: 1 >Conversation-Id: <v03110703b042eec4d746@[206.152.10.82]> >Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 12:29:45 -0700 >Reply-To: Cindy Heavilin <[log in to unmask]> >Sender: "LISTSERV list owners' forum" <[log in to unmask]> >From: Cindy Heavilin <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: reply to owner or list >To: [log in to unmask] And sure enough, the fifth line down contains the offending 'Reply-To:'. -jwgh