I believe there is a mistake in the settings.

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Fri Sep 11 14:59:49 BST 2009


Stephen wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Oh boy...
>>
>> Yes, it's inconsistent.
>>
>> No, it's not wrong.  Most computer-related lists do not set a Reply-To at
>> all.  See: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html and
>> http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html
> 
> I didn't think of that having a reply to set could be harmful. It was a
> very informative read.

Well, really I don't much care - I certainly don't consider setting Reply-To 
as _harmful_, but it's annoying when lists are configured in such a way that 
people routinely CC me.  And that's actually not entirely illogical either.  
If I got the lists via mail, either kmail or fetchmail would have noted 
duplicates and quietly dropped one.  It's only because I read via gmane news 
that I see too copies.
-- 
derek




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