Subject: Re: pine.conf for "reply to all" settings

From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:36:35 -0800 (PST)

*** Kevin Metzger ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) As the sysadmin I'm growing increassingly annoyed at my users replying
:) to all instead of replying to the sender only when the origional email
:) was sent to a group. Is there a feature that I can set in the
:) /usr/local/lib/pine.conf that will make the default action reply to
:) sender?

I can't think of any way to do this, what I may suggest though is that you
suggest users to use the Bcc: or Lcc: fields to send mass e-mails. In that
way users won't be able to answer to everyone, unless added intentionally.
You may want to add this headers in the list of default-composer-headers
in your pine.conf file, so that users will always have them listed there.

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Eduardo
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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 17:14:28 +0000 (GMT)

> in your pine.conf file, so that users will always have them listed there.

Excellent suggestions Eduardo. Also, explain to your users the
difference between Bcc and Lcc and tell them that if they leave
the To and Cc headers blank, then they should use the Lcc rather
than the Bcc header. Another thing you can do is add Reply-To to
the default-composer-hdrs and train your users to fill it in if
they want replies to go to a particular address or addresses. So,
for example, you might put this in pine.conf

default-composer-hdrs=From,
	Reply-To,
	To,
	Cc,
	Lcc,
	Bcc,
	Fcc,
	Organization,
	Newsgroups,
	Subject

You could also set the viewer-hdrs so that users will see the
Reply-To header by default when they are viewing a message.

I also recommend adding

 no-reply-always-uses-reply-to

to the pine.conf feature-list so that users will get notified
about what's going on with the Reply-To header (this will help to
prevent embarrassments in mailing lists that use the Reply-To
header). This feature is one of the favorites that I list here

 <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/pc/#faveSettings>

HTH,
Nancy
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From: Kevin Metzger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:54:12 -0500 (EST)

As the sysadmin I'm growing increassingly annoyed at my users replying to all
instead of replying to the sender only when the origional email was sent to a
group.  Is there a feature that I can set in the
/usr/local/lib/pine.conf that will make the default action reply to sender?  I
just finished deleting 20 "me too!" messages in responce to HR asking who
would like to attend a 401k meeting because everyone replied to all.  I'm know
they have to answer the question following the repy button, but I would like
to defaut that to "sender only".

I'm running Pine 4.10 that has worked flawlessly since it came out.  I'll
upgrade if I _need_ to, but would rather not fix what isn't broken.

TIA
kevin

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