On Mar 9, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:

> 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.

Read what I just posted on why the list is set up the way it is.  It is 
purposefully set up to reply to each poster individually, and not the list.  
There is a reason for it, whether you agree with that reason or not.  You are 
not the list owner.


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