On Nov 14, 2013, at 15:09, Pablo Rodríguez <oi...@web.de> wrote: > I think it might be worth to discuss the point you make.
In fact I should have pointed you to this newer article: http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html which explains why the discussion ended in 2001: > In April of 2001, the IETF issued af new document, RFC 2822, which obsoletes > RFC 822. In this new RFC, the author addresses the Reply-To header field in a > few places, but the most relevant to this discussion is the following in > section 3.6.2 "Originator fields": > >> When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it indicates the mailbox(es) to which >> the author of the message suggests that replies be sent. > > Your list software is not "the author of the message", so it must not set or > in any way meddle with the Reply-To header field. That field exists for the > author and the author alone. If your list munges it, you are violating the > standard. --------------- SWFTools-common is a self-managed list. To subscribe/unsubscribe, or amend an existing subscription, please kindly point your favourite web browser at:<http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/swftools-common>
