Re: speeding up Octave development

[John W. Eaton]

On  5-Mar-1999, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

| I usually try to reply to the list and the person if I can answer
| someone's question, but one thing that sometimes gets in the way is
| that by default replies will go to the person, since the From: line
| is the person that sent the mail, and there is no Reply-To: line.
| Some of the other mailing lists that I am on set the Reply-To: line
| to the list address.  
| 
| I don't know if others feel the same way, but I have been bitten
| by this a few times.

I'd rather not add a Reply-To: header because I have seen embarrassing
things happen when people thought they were just replying to the
sender but they were actually replying to the list.  I'd rather avoid
that.  Doesn't your mail reader have a `follow-up' feature as well as
`reply'?

jwe