"Mr. Brigham Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In actual truth I would argue that adding a Reply-To: is the Correct way
> to implement the needed behavior for two reasons:
>
> 1. From: should reference the person that wrote the email.
> 2. A response in the majority of cases should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1 - sure. 2 - not quite so. For the same reason that "From: " should
represent who the mail is sent from, the proper action upon replying to
this message is to send an email back to the address specified in
"From:".
It's just a question of what MUA you use and how you configure it. Use
Mail-Followup-To headers to specify if you want to get replies to the
list or to you. Use one key to reply to the list you're subscribed to
("L" in my case), and one to reply to the author ("r" in my case), yet
another one to reply to absolutely all addresses ("g" in my case). If
your MUA can't handle this easy task, it's time to switch to mutt :)
Mailinglists are a lot (but not in all respects) like newsgroups. If
you want to reply to an author it's a different thing than sending a
follow-up. Redirecting the replies using Followup-To makes sense - so
does Mail-Followup-To. Reply-To is a different beast.
-Jan
