Yes, that is exactly correct, but also many companies, including mine
have Post servers which cause the default to go back to their general
mail account.  By setting the reply address ensures that it always gets
back to the right person.  Hence it is good practice.  I personally will
not change it because of one person.  In fact Olin is the person who has
ever complained to me about this.  I have sent 1000's of emails over the
past 10 years this way without ever a complaint.  Including the PIC list
and other mailing lists.

Now this is also why news servers are better than mailing lists as far
as the replies go.

Regards,


James

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From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Dale Botkin
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:17 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [PIC]: (Reply addresses, was PWM problems)

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, James Williams wrote:

> It is standard business practice to have a reply email to you dev team
> and customers and other known people when you send email.  Most of the
> time it is a two way message, hence the efficiency of just hitting
> reply.

If you do not set a Reply-To email address in your mail client, hitting
the reply button (or key) will reply to the From: addres.  The only time
one actually needs a Reply-To address set is when one wishes replies to
go
to an email address different from the one used to send the original
message.

In other words, your email address is the default Reply-To address.

Dale
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