Derek Cunningham wrote:
>
> I agree with you.. it forces lazy people to keep the discussion going...
> but...
>
> if, for whatever reason, i use a reply-to address... he list just knocks
> that out... kills it, gone, vanished. why? that's so lame.
A good mailing list program will allow the option to put a reply-to the
mailing list if and only if the sender didn't have a reply-to address. If the
sender did use a reply-to, then that is to be respected, unless it's identical
to the From header.
> also.. what if i want to send mail to the SENDER, and not the list?
Then you use a proper mail agent. The main problem with the "Reply-To
Considered Harmful" document is that the author considered the behaviour of
elm as the only possible right behaviour. I use mutt most of the time (except
here at work where I don't for reasons too complicated to go into). In mutt,
if you go to reply to a message with a Reply-To header, it will say "Reply to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]? (y/n) [y]", and if you say "n", it will offer to
reply to the From address instead. Of course mutt also gives you the "L" to
reply to a list (after you tell it the addresses of lists) so you can handle
non-reply-munging mailing lists too.
> i have to copy and paste their email address, whereas if the list
> doesn't modify the emial headers, i just use reply-to-all, and it will
> send the message to the list, and reply will send a message to the sender.
Don't assume that all mailing lists are run by majordomo, and don't assume
that your broken mailer always does the right thing. That's the same mistake
the author of the document in question made. Just because things are broken
in your world doesn't mean that you can't come into the present.
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