Hi Jane On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 04:11:55PM +0200, Jane Weideman wrote: > FYI. I have put this setting back to the default, as I am told this is > impolite and uncustomary... Yes, so the hardcore say. There are arguments for and against, but the technical arguments against munging headers are convincing.
However, for the list which I run for newbies, this is actually ridiculous -- no one replies to the list. So I think there are some exceptions. This is from the mailman administrative interface: 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. There are some links in that, showing both sides: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml cheers, Jan PS. Almost sent that to you. Now that is my fault for using reply instead of list-reply. But lots of tech lists I am on make this a little easier by munging the headers. Only because that is what this email is about, did I actually notice! -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
