Re: Mailman [ Was: can i have full alpha channel at client side? ]

[Dimitar Haralanov <voidtrance comcast net>]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 11:57:03 -0500
Charles Schmidt <cschmidt2 emich edu> wrote:

> To "solve" this (that is, make hitting Reply only reply to the list)
> you're suggesting munging the headers of the original email, setting
> the Reply-To: to the list address.
>
> This is awful idea (despite what you think, and despite how clean and
> perfect a solution it is) because it modifies the email.  This is a
> horrible sin in email handling, imho. 
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
>
> If you munge the headers, how do you reply to just the author?  You
> probably can't anymore, without some cut and paste. 

        Besides the fact that this is rather off-topic, it is not necessary at
all to munge headers to achieve the correct/desired behavior. As you can
see (if your mailer permits), all messages to the list come with the
convenient "List-*" headers, one of which is List-Post.
        As an example, my mailer Sylpheed-Claws lets me choose whether I want
to reply to the list, Reply-To All, or Reply-To Sender. In the case of
the first one, it uses the List-Post header.

        I am not convinced that this is a problem with Mailman but rather with
the different mailers out there but that is just my opinion. I could be
wrong.

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