Please Fix List's Reply-To: Header

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

And one more thing...

On the one list I'm on where a reply-to goes to the sender instead of the 
list you have to anticipate getting at least eight out-of-office 
auto-replies and undeliverable mail notifications.  And no one does 
anything about it, because it's more trouble than it's worth to deal 
with.  On this list those things spam the list.  So people complain, and 
wind up doing something.

At 04:54 PM 1/9/03 -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
>On 01/09/03 16:38, Bill Campbell wrote:
>>On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:35:01PM -0500, kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:
>>>Say, Doug, would you mind fixing the Reply-To: that Mailman puts on
>>>messages to the list? Currently, it is    Reply-To: General Linux 
>>>discussion and help <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
>>>which is the same as the List-Id: header:
>>>    List-Id: General Linux discussion and help <linux-users.linux-sxs.org>
>>I would much prefer to see the Reply-To: left out entirely:
>>         http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
>
>I wouldn't.  The argument that you referenced is one written by list 
>admins for list admins, and intentionally ignores the needs of list members.
>
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>L. Friedman                                    netllama at linux-sxs.org



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