On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Niall Kavanagh wrote:
> No offense to whoever implemented it, or anyone who thinks it's a good
> idea, but it sucks. If you don't think so then read the "reasons not to
> munge" page that someone posted on the list yesterday.
There are advantages and disadvantages to it. The problem is really
indicative of a lack of functionality in the Internet mail system. There is
no standard way to indicate that a message came from a mailing list. It would
be nice if there were standard headers that indicated what mailing list a
message came from, what the list's posting address is, what the list owner
address is, and how to unsubscribe from it. It would make things so much
easier.
FWIW, here are the two sides of the debate...
Reply-To Munging Considered Harmful:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
Reply-To Munging Considered Useful:
http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml
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