Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

phil@bolthole.com (Philip Brown) writes:
> As opposed to the current scheme, which also requires "annoying manual
> editing of addresses" to reply to the list, if your mailreader does the
> reasonable thing and assumes you want to reply to the original sender of
> the message, in liu of a reply-to header.

Only if you're using a MUA too old or disfunctional to be worth discussing.

All reasonable mail readers support at least `reply to sender' and
`followup'/`wide-reply' commands, and the latter should do what you want.

By making Reply-To: point to the list, you make these two different
commands do the same thing, thus depriving the user of the choice.

-Miles
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