Sounds to me like the broken product (or misconfigured) is the 
mailling-list software.  If the RFC says no more than one Reply-To 
fields, then it shouldn't be adding more, it should be replacing, or 
preferably appending to, the existing field.  This won't fix the 
annoying behaviour of outlook, but that isn't really a bug, it just 
doesn't implement a non-standard feature that many people like, and 
that lot's of other mail clients implement.

Kevin Anderson a �crit:
>>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.
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> 
> 
> I'd actually argue that this is a BAD thing.
> 
> If something is broken, it should be fixed where the problem originally
> lies.  The solution should not be to just live with the rest of the mail
> list using poorly configured products.  That would be like saying that the
> easiest solution to a mail virus would be to just have bigger pipes so we
> could handle the traffic.
> 
> The real issue is that Outlook CAN'T be fixed.  And that is the problem.
> 
> Aaron wrote the code to fix it, but Microsoft would rather have OTHER
> (competing) Products bend to fit the Microsoft way.  And that's what has now
> happened.  And because they have a monopoly (quoting..."instead of everyone
> else on the list") we all have to just accept that, and like it.  That ends
> up with this whole argument.  Instead of seeing that Microsoft wrote a
> flawed product, that needs to be fixed, the simplest solution is for the
> correctly functioning product, Kmail ;in this instance; to either spend
> their time changing a product that isn't broken to accomodate a flaw in a
> product that is broken, OR, (on a corporate level), to simply mandate
> Outlook across the board, so that interoperability doesn't matter.
> 
> That is the problem.  And in this case, it isn't even a serious problem.
> Kev.



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