On Tuesday 10 April 2007 19:00, Arthur Hagen wrote:
> I guess many people assume that e-mails with the same Message-ID will be
> treated as the same e-mail on the recipient side, in which case there
> won't be multiple copies.  Which is wrong, but less wrong than not
> <hint>setting the Reply-To: to where you want your replies</hint>, in
> this case <[email protected]>.

I think it's commonly accepted that there are two kinds of replies you can 
make to a list posting: A list reply or followup, and a personal reply. Which 
one does Reply-To refer to?

And if someone who is not subscribed posts, with Reply-To set to both the list 
and his own mail address, and I send a reply accordingly, but with Reply-To 
set to the list address alone, you still have to use "Reply to all", in which 
case I *still* get an extra copy.

The fact is: The semantics of Reply-To is ambiguous and there is no good way 
to tell the MUAs of others' whether you want to be CCd.

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