Israel Herraiz, 2010-08-19 14:58: > It's really annoying to send a message to the list instead of to a > single person by accident. > > In any case, mailing lists can set a Reply-To header
Whoa! Mailing lists _can_ do that, but they should not. Ironically you happend to mention one of the reasons why they should not. :D Let's consider the max damage done by modifying vs. not modifying reply-to: If the header is unmangled the user may in certain sircumstances accidentally send private mail instead of list mail. That's an annoyance at most. If the header is mangled by list server the user may in certain sircumstances accidentally send list mail instead of private mail. That may cost the user a lot of goodwill, money or her job. Ergo, list setting reply-to header violates the principle of least damage. -- Tero Tilus ## 050 3635 235 ## http://tero.tilus.net/ _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
