From: Dirk Nimmich (nimmich@muenster.de)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 13:22:24 CDT
Kent Landfield wrote:
> # > I'm sorry, but having the list actively inserting Reply-To
> # > with the same content as From _is_ broken.
> #
> # Yes! This has been driving me nuts for months on a half dozen
> # lists I am on. I hit reply and enter, followed by cancel
> # because the wrong address is in the reply-to, hit reply again,
> # 'y' for reply to all recipients, do some surgery on the 'To'
> # and 'Cc' lines to remove the incorrect 'reply-to' now in the
> # 'To' line and to move the list address from a 'Cc' to the 'To'.
If this is a problem for you, you use an inappropriate client, I
would say. Or you are not familiar enough with the mailing list
related functions of your reader.
> Lets take this off line... The situation is this... What you are
> talking about is having all messages generated with a
>
> Reply-To: usenet-format@landfield.com
No. We are talking about having no change at all to the Reply-To
header because it destroys any contents the author wished to be
set.
> The majordomo setup here was changed to replyto = $SENDER a while
> back after such a discussion. I never heard another thing about
> it. I just removed the replyto setting so it does not insert a
> Reply-To at all.
Thank you.
> This will not correct what you are talking about. It will also
> not correct what John was complaining about either.
Depends on what John puts in the Reply-To header of his mails (if
he puts anything there at all).
> A group reply will still work as before generating a duplicate
> message to the author of the message being replied to.
Right. That's why modern mail readers have functions to distinguish
between answers to the author only (reply), to the list only (list
reply), and to both (group reply).