Re: Introduction
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 04:42:46PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:52:20AM +1000, James Mills wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 06:36:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > > [Please keep further questions on the mailing list, if you would.]
> > >
> > > Shit. Does this list not have an explicit Reply-To header to the mailing
> > > list address either ? THis is the 2nd list I've come across that is
> > > configured this way. My apolagies.
> >
> > No Debian lists have that; deliberately so.
>
> Details?
>
> If it's deliberate, there must be something that breaks with an explicit
> "Reply-To" header worse than not having such a header breaks old
> mailers.
Google for "Reply-To considered harmful". (There are arguments the other
way round, too; it's a notorious divisive issue that is *really* not
worth rehashing here yet again.)
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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