testing reply to

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 19:19:15 -0500, David A. Bandel <david at pananix.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 09:41:38 -0600
> Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 08:07:35 -0700, Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 17:00:47 +0200, Klaus-Peter Schrage
> > > <kpschrage at gmx.de> wrote:
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> I've been following this and here is what collins' headers look like
> (alma and marshall are similar):
> From: Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com>
> To: Linux tips and tricks <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
> Reply-To: Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com>,
>         Linux tips and tricks <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
> Subject: Re: testing reply to
> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 09:41:38 -0600
> Sender: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org
> 
> All others have _only_ linux-users as their Reply-To: line.
> 

Interesting; I wish I had some control over this, but gmail appears to
have some interesting processing under the covers. I checked out
attempts to reply to a number of the mails from linux-users (I can
only see the To: addresses, not any of the headers.)

>From                             To                                 To
(Results of hitting Reply)

David (this mail)             me, the list                    David !!!
vik1ngo (a gmail user)   self, the list                    self, the list
Alma                               the list                          
self, the list
Bill                                  the list                        
  self, the list twice!!!
Kurt                                the list                          
the list twice!!!
Ken                                the list                            the list
Tony                              the list                            the list
Javier                             the list                           
self, the list

Bill and Kurt win the prize, since whatever headers they are using
cause multiple iterations of the same list address.

I probably don't understand this at all. It seems to me that Sylpheed
picks up on the mailing list header and uses that, if present. What is
the appropriate RFC???? behavior for replies, or is this totally a
crap shoot?

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