Reply to List

[Cefiar]

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 02:16, Lee Revell wrote:
> It's really not that broken - the Ubuntu lists are weird in that they
> don't set Reply-To to the list address, and people consider using
> Reply-To-All to be spamming them.

Can I also point out that some list software out there can be told to only add 
a reply-to *IF* the message doesn't have an existing reply-to header. I know 
Sympa can do this from direct experience.

> On most mailing lists either the list sets Reply-To to the list address,
> or (more commonly) users don't mind getting 2 copies of the message
> because they filter one copy into the list folder and one in their inbox
> so the threading is preserved for both provate replies and replies to
> the list.

First: Chip Rosenthal has a really good essay on the subject.
 http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
Second: Marc Merlin has some good comments on why it's bad.
 http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/listreplyto.html

If there's nothing new to add, can we please let the thread die?

-- 
 Stuart Young - aka Cefiar - cef at optus.net