Excerpts from Tero Tilus's message of Thu Aug 19 08:49:21 -0400 2010: > 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.
Yes, that's one of the endless philosophical debates about email and mailing lists. I do actually agree with that, it is better not to set the Reply-To header. I was using as an example to show that Sup is behaving correctly in this case :-). Cheers, Israel _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
