Quoted from jaqque, the super Debian jock [06 Feb 2005]:
> Your MUA is set up correctly: there is a Reply-To: pointing to the
> list, and only the list. There is no Mail-Followup-To: header present.
A Reply-To to the list is not a correct setup, but the rest of your
statement applies---that the proper way to specify where follow-ups
should go is via Mail-Followup-To.
> You could use something like procmail to discard the private reply when
> there is a list reply. However, the way they work seems to be based upon
> Message-ID, and the one sent directly would tend to be the first one in,
> and presumably the winner.
Using Message-ID-based discarding is unsafe, and people could use that
to cause you to lose mailing list messages if (especially on a large
mailing list) they receive the message ahead of you. If anything, it's
necessary to compare (the hashes of) the message bodies.
I used to have a system where personal mail that also have a mailing
list (to which I'm subscribed) listed as a recipient would be dropped.
This is safer, in that a forged message would only cause me to lose
the forged message, not some other harmless message.
Cheers,
---Chris K.
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