For those who haven't seen this:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
There's nothing I can add.
-hilmar
On Jul 31, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Richard Rodgers wrote:
> Folks:
>
> I'm currently administering the tech & dev lists & would gladly
> reconfigure if the preponderance of opinion is in favor. I'm by no
> means
> a mail admin, and was following the recommendations of the GNU mailman
> docs, which I reproduce here:
>
>
> reply_goes_to_list (general): Where are replies to list messages
> directed? Poster is strongly recommended for most mailing lists.
>
> This option controls what Mailman does to the Reply-To: header in
> messages flowing through this mailing list. When set to Poster, no
> Reply-To: header is added by Mailman, although if one is present in
> the
> original message, it is not stripped. Setting this value to either
> This
> list or Explicit address causes Mailman to insert a specific Reply-To:
> header in all messages, overriding the header in the original
> message if
> necessary (Explicit address inserts the value of reply_to_address).
>
> There are many reasons not to introduce or override the Reply-To:
> header. One is that some posters depend on their own Reply-To:
> settings
> to convey their valid return address. Another is that modifying
> Reply-To: makes it much more difficult to send private replies. See
> `Reply-To' Munging Considered Harmful for a general discussion of this
> issue. See Reply-To Munging Considered Useful for a dissenting
> opinion.
>
> Some mailing lists have restricted posting privileges, with a parallel
> list devoted to discussions. Examples are `patches' or `checkin'
> lists,
> where software changes are posted by a revision control system, but
> discussion about the changes occurs on a developers mailing list. To
> support these types of mailing lists, select Explicit address and set
> the Reply-To: address below to point to the parallel list.
>
> Where are replies to list messages
> directed? Poster is strongly
> recommended for most mailing lists.
> Poster
> This list
> Explicit
> address
>
>
>
>
>
> If anyone has further input, please share with the list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard R
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 11:38 -0500, Dorothea Salo wrote:
>>> The result of a missing reply-to header is that
>>> you have to use the reply-all function of your
>>> mail client to answer back to the list, which
>>> seems unnatural. In most cases, answers seem
>>> to be sent in private mail as implied by the
>>> missing header.
>>>
>>> As of my perception, this makes the list *more*
>>> noisy as required and renders the list archive
>>> less useful. Let me explain.
>>
>> I agree. Useful responses are not publicly archived, which means they
>> are not searchable, which means we get the same questions over and
>> over -- not because there is no answer, but because there is no
>> *public* answer.
>>
>> I would very much appreciate the reconfiguration of dspace-tech to
>> reply-to-list instead of reply-to-sender.
>>
>> Dorothea
>>
>
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