On 11 Aug 2005 at 20:51, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 07:26 PM 08/11/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: > >The message that has the incorrect Reply-To header is not being sent > >by me. > > Yes, it is.
No, it really isn't. The incorrect Reply-To header is generated by the mailing list server. > >My message to the list is correct in having my email address in the > >Reply-To field. > > Having the same address in a Reply-To header as in your From header is > redundant. But not incorrect -- you're the one who pointed out the RFC on this, and while it is optional, it is not incorrect formatting to include it, even if it's redundant (from a human point of view) when identical to the FROM address. > >The only justification would be if Mailman were not configurable to > >drop the incoming Reply-To header. We know that is not the case. > > I agree that Henry can -- and should -- easily configure Mailman to > strip Reply-To. However, your sending out a Reply-To header which is > the same as your From header serves no purpose whatsoever. . . . It is the way my email client works. > . . . I'm not > saying this is anyone's fault, but it's something that you could fix > for yourself quite easily and with no negative repercussions to you -- > just as it's also something that Henry could fix listwide with no > apparent negative repercussions. No, I'm not going to change the way I send email, which I've been doing since 1996 when I started using Pegasus Mail, just because of a misconfigured mailing list. As others have said, the inconvenience is quite small, even if annoying because it's so easily correctable. If there were really some kind of problem with my email client's settings for the Reply-To header, you'd think it would have emerged sometime in the 9 years I've been using it. The only place there's ever been a problem is the Finale mailing list. Indeed, the Finale mailing list is the only one I've ever subscribed to that has repeatedly had these kinds of list configuration issues. -- 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
