Re: Moving topics from debian-private (was Re: SPI money out)
Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> wrote:
> Please check out http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html . The page
> contains several arguments against the use of "Reply-To". I fully agree to
> what Ian said.
I personally find header-munging of any sort distasteful, however
I think a couple of points should be made clear:
(1) a good mail client (e.g. a properly configured mutt) will
give you the option of respecting reply-to, or ignoring it.
(2) changing an existing reply-to to an x-reply-to is a fairly
minor losage, given a good mail client.
(3) a good mail client can thread duplicate replies together,
making them easy to manage.
A really good email client would probably have a mechanism for
indicating that the previous message's author prefers to receive list
mail only via the list address. Admittedly, this solution hasn't been
designed, and debian-devel probably isn't the right place to design it,
but it shouldn't be too hard to hack up mutt, gnus, and whatever other
readers people like to support such a mechanism.
I prefer to use reply to all recipients rather than reply to list. This
is because I've been stung in cases where one of the recipients was not
on the list I was replying to. Also, there are times when the list
and/or the author's personal address have problems, and sending to
both is just plain more robust.
Anyways, a solution aimed at bad mail clients cannot be a solution (in
my opinion).
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Raul
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