[Elecraft] posting style

[Brian Mury]

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 11:36 -0400, Ian Stirling wrote:
>   I do not have a "reply-to" field in my headers,
> so I suspect strongly that the destination of your
> reply is determined by your email software setting,
> nothing to do with my settings.  Supporting this
> notion, when I "reply" to my own posting, the
> destination is to the list, not to me. And replying
> to certain members' posts, the destinations are their
> personal addresses because they have a "reply-to" in
> their headers, a function of their software settings.

You are correct that you have no reply-to header, but if I reply to your
message, it still goes to you, not the list. This is because the message
has a bunch of headers telling my mail client that this message is a
post to an email list. This is common behaviour for some (perhaps many?)
mail clients. I'm not sure which is considered the "correct" behaviour
and don't really care enough to go look up the RFC's - assuming they
even specify a "correct" behaviour.

My mail client, btw, has two ways I can reply: reply (goes to you) and
reply to list (goes to the list), which I find to be a very useful way
of doing it.

> Sounds like you aren't displaying threads because
> Charles's header clearly contains,

Yep, definitely a reply to Don's message and part of the KAT100 thread
and your email client (like mine) is correct in showing it as part of
that thread.