[aklug] Re: Small note: duplicate e-mails

Mike Tibor wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Richard Moore wrote:
>
>> There is actually no way of changing the fact that all the list does is keep
>> an archive of the email, and then forward the email, using the senders
>> address as the sender field. [ CLIPPED ]
>> Richard
>
> Several years ago when I administered the list, I took a poll to see what
> people wanted, and the vote was to have reply go to the sender. The
> alternative was, of course, to set reply-to: to the list address, but
> people preferred it the other way. If we want to change that behavior, it
> can certainly be done.
>
> What I do with the current behavior (and I use pine, but all other MUAs
> that are worth anything can do this too) is to reply-to-all, and then
> delete the address of the original sender so that I only send a single
> message which goes to the list.
>
> Mike

"Reply-To" Munging Considered Harmful
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

Reply-To Munging Considered Useful
http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml

"Reply-To" Munging Still Considered Harmful. Really.
http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html

"In April of 2001, the IETF issued af new document, RFC 2822, which
obsoletes RFC 822. ... When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it
indicates the mailbox(es) to which the author of the message suggests
that replies be sent."

Beware! Reply-To: munging is considered a religious issue and ...
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node11.html

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Received on Wed Aug 20 18:46:28 2008