Tim Pierce writes:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 08:32:16AM -0500, Peter Green wrote:
> > > Why doesn't Qmail mailing list set the
> > > Reply To: field to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
> > > It is very anoying that I must type the
> > > mailing list address for every message
> > > I respond to.
> >
> > Check out http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html for a great
> > reason *not* to set the Reply-To: header. Any reasonable mailer should
> > have some sort of "reply to (l)ist, (s)ender, (b)oth" option.
>
> Unfortunately, there's an awful lot of unreasonable mailers in the
> world, which makes that philosophy impractical.
Pandering to the unreasonable mailers doesn't help. The chief cost is
one of embarrassment to the poor slob who forgot that he was replying
to a mailing list. We've all seen it happen. I can't imagine that
anybody thinks that's a good thing.
How's about we get the unreasonable mailers fixed?
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