http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html

This supports Alex's point for a proper method for dealing with undesirable 
duplicates lies with the receiver. This is in part what Message-ID is for, 
which RFC 2822 specifically says that these "duplicates" are not new instances 
of that message. They are in effect a single message.

However, the duplicates wouldn't happen if the list used the List-Post header 
field, and if the mail client honors it. All Omni Admin emails contain this:
List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]>

So Omni is off the hook, if I'm reading the RFC's correctly. And I will argue 
the flaw is with Apple Mail. It's not honoring List-Post at all, not with Reply 
or Reply-All. It's illogical behavior to default to replying to individuals, 
let alone multiple individuals, for list serves. It's any wonder why there is a 
Reply-To hack, which RFC 2822 suggests is improper because it is author domain. 
So actually reply-to is off limits for listserves.

And Reply-to is used for the *suggested* address for replies. There's no 
suggestions in any RFC that a replier should not use both From: and Reply-To:, 
merely that if one is to be used, Reply-To is suggested.

Chris Murphy

On Mar 9, 2011, at 10:03 PM, Alex Satrapa wrote:

> On 10/03/2011, at 15:47 , Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
>> But alas there is only one list member who is particularly bent out of shape 
>> about it.
> 
> I've had duplicate deletion on my mail server for a long time :\
> 
> Works most of the time, based on the Message-ID and "references" headers 
> which mailman preserves.
> 
> Alex
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