> > Can you give an example? > > you gave a couple of them in your email ... Reply-to is there for > legitimate > reasons... > I meant for why you personally need to use it.
> yes, and i was asking how outlook (and others) can excuse their behaviour > given that sometimes a Reply-to is indeed needed. > And Outlook does indeed respect Reply-to. It's not like it ignores it, it just doesn't do with it what you think it should do (I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and guess you work on KMail, don't you? I seem to remember seeing your name in the credits for that app - could be wrong. Since I'm not at home I can't check. I'll just assume you do know what you're talking about anyway). Like I said, MS made a design decision. I didn't say it was the _right_ decision, just that they did it. (Strange sense of deja-vu - you and I have had the MS design decision discussion in the past, a few months back). > > Well, I could say something, but that would go against the earlier > > discussion of playing nice with the competition. :-) > > heh... i was waiting for that ;-) > > there are deffinitely effective and respectable ways to poke at the > competition w/out screwing with their names. like actually > examining their > products ;-) > <snip much code that further proves your point that Outlook has its shortcomings> Ok. You're right, Outlook doesn't handle mailing lists nearly as well as other MUAs I've used. In Evolution, I right click a message and go to the Filters submenu, and one of the options (if it's from a list) is "Filter on list (the list name)". Outlook doesn't do that. The closest I can get it to doing that is setting a rule to filter based on a specific header text, and then manually going through the email headers and picking the text I want. This tells me Microsoft wasn't really thinking about lists when the designed the product. So yes, that's a shortcoming of the product. But you'll notice that the problem was actually solved without recoding Outlook - you just had to change a setting on your end, instead of everyone else on the list changing email clients. Ian
