On 12 Aug 2005 at 0:54, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > David W. Fenton schrieb: > > Take it up with the list owner. I'm not about to change the > > configuration of my email client to accommodate a mis-configured > > mailing list. > > I am not so sure, actually. Isn't the very nature of a "reply-to" > header that you _want_ it to be replied to? So, unless you want your > double messages (which is fair enough, if that's the case) isn't it > your mail client which is mis-configured, by definition of the > "reply-to" header?
The message that has the incorrect Reply-To header is not being sent by me. My message to the list is correct in having my email address in the Reply-To field. The list then sends a copy of my message out to all the subscribers. THe original of that message was from me, but the copy is from the list server. Thus, it's Reply-To should not include my address. It seems to me that this is all a last result of the "fix" to the problem that was present for a very long time where the list was configured to use the sender's address for the Reply-To (whether or not your message to the list had a Reply-To header). Instead of setting up the listserv to ignore the Reply-To of the incoming message and set the Reply-To to the list address, it now combines the incoming Reply-To field with the list address. Does anyone think that's a good idea? Anyone? What problem, exactly, does it solve? None, so far as I can see. It causes problems in one of two ways: 1. it either inconveniences the people who are paying attention to remove the extra address when replying, OR 2. it inconveniences the person lists in the Reply-To along with the list, by causing them to get two copies of those messages. Is there a justification for this? I don't think so. The only justification would be if Mailman were not configurable to drop the incoming Reply-To header. We know that is not the case. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
