On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 02:10:48PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > Derek Martin wrote: > > If a mailing list--which is already a special case of e-mail > > usage--*ADDS* a reply-to header to an e-mail which matches the from > > header of the message, when none previously existed, the net effect is > > nil: respondants will (assuming they even honor reply-to, which is not > > It most certainly is problematic.
You are not paying attention. > The net effect is that it causes good mail programs to behave > inconsistently. When set to the list it breaks reply to author > functions in good mail programs (Elm, Pine and their derivatives; > Thunderbird and Seamonkey, and even the venerable Berkeley Mail to > name a few). When set to the original author it breaks reply to list > and reply to all functions in those same programs. [...] > Thoughtless? Hardly. I've thought about this off and on for far too long. Here's why it IS thoughtless: You're talking about the general case of lists setting the reply-to header to the *list* address. I'm talking about setting it to the *sender's* address. The former is very bad, for the reasons you suggest. The latter has NONE of the effects you described. Moreover, if your "good mail programs" obey the correct headers (List-Post and/or Mail-Followup-To), which all of the clients you named do AFAIK, then setting reply-to has *absolutely no effect* on list-reply functionality, ever. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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