Re: reply-to munging
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 07:33:53AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Jon Dowland wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:11:43PM -0300, Gabriel wrote:
>
> > > And please, I know sometimes happens, but send the replys to the list.
> > > That's why we all should add a reply-to field on the messages we send
> > > to the list. (although I forgot to do this with this message :-P)
>
> > No, we shouldn't :) See archives for various long arguments on the
> > subject of Reply-To: munging. The rationale behind not doing so (as
> > applied by this list) is available at
> > <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>.
>
> That's only one admin's opinion. I find the opposite superior:
> http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html
>
> This is a public discussion list, not a public questions/private answers
> list. You can't have a public discussion when people make their replies
> private.
This has been discussed to death already, and isn't going to change
unless *everyone* thinks it should. If you care about it a lot, then I
think I posted a procmail snippet that would rewrite the reply-to header
locally last time this was discussed.
Pete
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