replying to the list

[Eric Dunbar]

On 10/04/06, John <dingo at coco2.arach.net.au> wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
> > John wrote:
> >
> >
> >>OTOH the list can be fixed easily, tomorrow, and it will work properly
> >>for everyone.
> >
> > But you're wrong, there.  It _won't_ work properly for all of us who have
> > mail programs that properly understand list headers because, while my
> > program (KMail) recognizes the various posting headers and will use them in
> > a consistent and intelligent manner, it is explicitly forbidden by RFC to
> > use them if there's a Reply-To header.
>
> And if the typly-to: header is set to the correct location, where's the
> problem?
>
> At the moment, we have lots of people getting mail they shouldn't. Is
> that worse than what you think could happen?

It's been more than year since the reply-to issue reared its head on
the ubuntu-users list. There, I think it was a bit of a problem since
the kind of discussion that is supposed to go on there can be of
importance to others (trouble-shooting, for e.g.) and a lost e-mail
here or there might be the difference between solving the problem and
reverting to Windows.

Here, I don't think it's the end of the world if a few people get an
extra e-mail or two in their mail box, or if an e-mail goes missing
from the thread -- frankly, though interesting, sounder threads aren't
exactly earth shattering!

I was wondering if this thread would die but it seems to have managed
to survive for a few days.

Just to add a little spice to the issue... it doesn't matter whether
or not mail clients can handle the current default because most lists
_do_ reply-to munging because there are a lot of people on hotmail and
gmail and yahoo mail and...