Sorry to throw you off here, but this will go back to the list-owner list as a demonstration that some mail programs do not accurately read the reply to headers. My school is currently on an OpenVMS AXP 7.1 operating system, and my e-mail program I am using is All-In-1. It is further interesting to note that all Reply-To headers get ignored by this mail program. All-In-1 recognises that the reply-to header exists, but it fails to do anything with it. Thus, be aware that just because you set the reply-to header up, not all responses will go through the way you anticipate. What seems to happen at this end is that every message which I wish to reply to will be directed to the Sender header, so since the list-owner list sent this message to me, than any reply I make will go back to the list-owner list. I did not change any information from the message I recieved to have it go back to the list owner list. Perhaps I should address this problem to the authors of the All-In-1 software package for OpenVMS, as it seems to have a few other quirks too. Glenn >Most of our lists are set up so that using REPLY to respond to mail >sent from the list will cause the reply to be addressed back to the >list. There are times when it desirable to post something to the >list with the intent to have everyone respond to the poster rather >than the list. Sending out surveys comes to mind. > >Fortunately, most of our lists are also set to respect internet >mail's Reply-To: header if it is present. This means that if you >include a Reply-To: header in your posting to the list, you can >override the default of replying to the list itself and direct >replies to your posting back to any address that you choose. > >Some mail programs can be set to generate a Reply-To header >automatically (bad idea in my opinion), but CMS is not one of >them, nor -- I believe -- is Exchange or Outlook. > >In experimenting with CMS, however, I found that I could construct >my CMS NOTE in such a way that when the posting was distributed to >list subscribers, their reply would be directed back to me instead >of to the list. > > >Now, all this happens because we have most of our lists set up with >the keyword of "Reply-to= List,Respect" in the list headers. So, >by default replies get addressed to the list, but if their is a reply >to header it will be respected and postings will be sent with a >reply to header containing the address the posters specified in his >or her reply to header when they sent the posting. > >Here's an example to make this all much clearer (I hope). >Add a reply-to line to your CMS note when you are preparing it. >Here's the note I used to test this with. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Date: 19 September 97, 16:36:17 EDT >From: Terry A. Moore TMOORE at CTNVM103 >To: TEST-L-TIMKEN LISTSERV List TEST-L-T at INTERNET ><TEST-L-T>:[log in to unmask] >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Another Test of Reply-To > >Text of my note.... <snip, snip> >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >This is a normal CMS note with the addition of the following line added >just above the Subject: line... > >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] > >Note that this technique should work for any mail program that can >generate a Reply-To: header when posting to a list that is setup to >respect the reply to address. > >Terry A. Moore >Timken LISTSERV Maintainer > >P.S. One final note. I've included a reply to in this posting to the > LSTOWN-L-TIMKEN list, so if you reply, your reply should be > addressed to me. If you want to post a reply to the list, you'll > need to add the list address ([log in to unmask]) to the > distribution of your reply.