Rick Moen via luv-main <[email protected]> writes:
> The reason it's not only controversial but (since 2001) definitively a
> breaking of standards-compliant behaviour is that it overrides,
> discards, and replaces the sender's own legitimate user of that SMTP
> feature, as IETF reconfirmed in 2001 via RFC 2822:  It is an optional
> SMTP feature in which the sender may indicate a desired reply-sender
> return address.

I also find it confusing in that some mailing lists set Reply-To: to the
mailing list, and others such as LUV set it to the sender. Some mailing
lists I have to "reply-to-sender" to reply to the list, others I have to
use "group-reply", yet others I have to use "group-reply" and then
manually alter the To: and Cc: headers to ensure I don't get flamed for
CCing people who don't want to get CCed.

Yes, sure there are lots of debates and dicussions about which one is
"right" or "wrong", however it is a shame that there isn't a single
standard that everyone adheres to for how to process the headers for
mailing lists.

Will stop there, before I start complaining about the lack of flying
pigs in my area.
-- 
Brian May <[email protected]>
https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/
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