At 20:12 +1100 030203, arkenstone wrote:
The majordomo that is used to administer the list was not able to prevent "reply-to" loops from dumb autoresponders. Sometimes people would set their mail clients to respond with "I will be out of the office until ..." - which would then loop through the list, sometimes even with the same mail client responding to its own autoresponse <!> - and the whole list would get the whole autoresponding loop.I'll have to agree with all of this, specifically what John Kaufmann said. It's quite often more difficult to follow a thread on this list, due to the whole reply-to header.As i only joined the list in the last month or so, would anyone be able to enlighten me as to why this change was made?
Wez felt that dropping the "Reply-To:" header would stop those conspiracies of dumb mail clients and dumb majordomo - and it has at least done that. Other lists are able to use "Reply-To:" to maintain threading without having to yield to dumb autoresponders, but I can't fault Wez, who already has a full plate, for not researching the differences.
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John
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