On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 08:28:51PM -0800, Ben Johnson wrote:

> surprises, I would rather be surprised that my email is being sent to
> fewer rather than more people than I expect.  correcting the "too few"
> mistake is a lot easier to correct than the "too many" mistake.  ya

That's a very good point. Of course, on a recent business list, I had to
use reply munging because our "group" discussion was taking place
offline because the individuals involved couldn't be trained to reply to
the list, no matter how hard I tried.

> Another good argument I believe remember reading a few times, long
> ago, is that the Reply-To: header is intended for individual use.  If
> that header is munged by a list then its intended purpose is made

Oh, yes. So, if I send mail from (gasp!) charter.net, but want to read
my non-list replies at hotmail.com, I'd use reply-to accordingly.
Munging would replace that header, and all *offline* replies would go to
the sending address, rather than my preferred reply-to address. 

On the other hand, replies to the list would still go to the subscribed
address, so I'm unsure how relevent this really is, unless you belong to
a list where you *want* to receive offline replies CC'd to an alternate
address. Does anybody really do that?

> impossible. and...  I believe there are other headers available
> (though not widely used/implemented) that are specifically designed
> for the functionality we're discussing.

Now you've got me curious. What headers are we talking about?

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