Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 12:37:13AM +0200, huug wrote:
> > On 2002-07-11, Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > P.S. you're setting a Reply-To which on a list usually means you
> > > want your replies off list.  I don't think that's what you want.
> > 
> > No, pointing Reply-To back to the list is the broken beheaviour.
> 
> If that's broken tell that to the mailing list manager that sets the
> Reply-To header to the list if it isn't already present in the email.
> Quite a few mailing lists do this.  It depends on the list.  But in most
> cases lists like this one the people posting are already subscribed and
> replying to the list rather than the individual is the proper thing to
> do.  The policy of not overriding the Reply-To by the mailing list
> server is to allow people who are not on the list to still get replies
> sent to them automagically.  So setting a Reply-To pointing back to the
> same address as your From field breaks this... esp when it's someone I'm
> positive is on the list. :)

  http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

  Vox, who thanks the emacs-deities for gnus ability to deal with the
  broken behaviour of mungled lists.

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