On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 04:02:08AM -0500, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner (spc_at_armigeron.com) wrote:
>
> I personally like Reply-To: set to the mailing list. All the lists I'm on
> are set up that way and there have been no problems that I could see (yes,
> you see the occasional private message sent but it's not that big a
> problem).
No problems? Here's one!
A mailing list subscriber wants to receive mail at an address different
from that in his From: header. (Let's say he's using Pine without
ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM, or he's using some older MUA that doesn't even
have the concept of changing the From: header). So, he sets the
Reply-To: to the address at which he actually accepts mail; the From:
isn't meaningful anymore.
Then it goes to the list, which replaces that Reply-To: with one
pointing at the list.
Explain how someone wishing to reply to him can retrieve the correct
address at this point. (Or, phrased differently, why the mailing list
should change anything at *all* in the message being sent.)
It's awfully curious that a list full o' geeks can't figure out how to
reply to a message in their mail client.
-Rich
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------------------------------ Rich Lafferty ---------------------------
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Concordia University, Montreal, QC (514) 848-7625
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Received on Thu Feb 03 2000 - 08:56:50 GMT