On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:57:27PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > I would really like it if this list were like all others > I am on/have ever been on, and used the reply-to field. > > I wish that they would set it up to be like this: > > From: the poster of the message > Sender: debian-user-bounces@lists.debian.org > Reply-to: debian-user@lists.debian.org > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > CC: other lists (crosspost) > BCC: other recipients > > I will try to do better in the future. > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html I have seen direct evidence of the problem inherent in reply-to munging. We had a student reply to an email thinking she was replying only to the instructor and instead sent her tearful sounding pleas to the entire class list. Not cool. Much better to err on the side of sending mail to fewer people than the opposite. A
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