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. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
