* Grant Robinson [Wed, 31 Aug 2005 at 21:24 -0600] <quote> > > On Aug 31, 2005, at 8:21 PM, Andy Bradford wrote: > > >Thus said Grant Robinson on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:57:44 MDT: > > > >>The subject line says most of it. It hasn't killed the flame war, so > >>just put it back, and no one will get hurt. > > > >No, but it does make it much easier for folks with intelligent > >email > >clients to send a direct (or off-list) response if needed and thus > >avoid > >public ignomy which usually results in awkward requests of > >apologies > >from the sender. > > If anyone was going to reply saying "get rid of the reply-to for good", > it would be Andy. :)
Here here! Gone with the reply-to forever! Muahaha > However, we've gone over this many times, and it > always comes down to the fact that most of the time (99%), people want > to reply to the list and _not_ the person. It has nothing to do with > "intelligent" email clients. That is why we still have it, because a > few people with an axe to grind want to remove the reply-to, and > everyone else wants it to stay. The point is without the reply-to mangling, you CAN send to either list OR personally without ANY mucking about in the address space. It "Just Works(TM)" However, with the reply-to mangled, munged, and beffuddled, the latter becomes a daunting task (at least as far as us lazy programmer types are concerned) and one who's at his witt's end and should reply privately is going to be in such a state of mind as to not take the many times more frustrating path. > Plus, Hans removed it to attempt to stop the flame war. I was pointing > out it didn't stop it, so put it back the way it was. So, let's not > start another flame war centered around the reply-to header. /me pulls out his flame-thrower and silver-fire-shelter-tent-thing. Flame on! Honestly, I think Hans just wanted an excuse to have some fun with this, and we gave it to him. ;) Von Fugal
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