On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 05:25:37PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > On Saturday 01 September 2018 at 17:21:39, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 03:27:59PM +0200, J. Fahrner wrote: > > > Hi, > > > my spam blocking rules don't allow a reply-to address to freemail > > > addresses. Today I received a message from this list with a gmail.com > > > replyto address (which was rejected). > > > I'm wondering why this list allows replyto addresses which contain other > > > addresses than this list. That makes no sense to me. Replies to list > > > messages should always go to the list. > > > > The reply-to header is to indicate where to send a message to the > > original author. The author might, for example, be temporarilly > > away from his usual site and still want to indicate where he > > normally receives email. > > This may have been the case when email was in its infancy, and an email > address actually pointed at "the machine" used by an individual, but how > relevant is this these days, when people can access their email accounts from > multiple devices, many of which are mobile and go with the person when they > away from "their usual site"?
If I'm away from home and post using my mobile, I still often want the reply to go to my home site, which is *not* in the cloud. -- hendrik > > > This might be useful, for example, to make a private, off-list reply. > > > > The 'list-post' header is to indicate how to reply to the list. > > > > Proper email programs distinguish between these and recognise both. > > Proper mailing-list software don't get in the way. > > Agreed. > > > Antony. > > -- > Users don't know what they want until they see what they get. Agreed. Sometimes they don't know even then. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
