Re: OT Mailing list settings

[Ken Fox <kfox vulpes com>]

Christian Rose wrote:
> Most lists have Reply-To: <list> by default, and with those lists
> there are seldom problems. People don't send duplicate messages and
> don't accidentally only reply to the sender.

You *still* don't get it?! Most lists I read (Perl 5/6, Linux kernel,
Apache mod_perl) do not munge the reply-to headers. I have no idea
about your statement about "most" lists, but I suspect that you're
hand-waving.

Read the following summary for why reply-to is best left alone:

  http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

If you don't want duplicates, you can either set your own personal
reply-to header when you send to the list, OR filter out duplicates when
mail is delivered to you (procmail or similar), OR get a smarter IMAP
agent, OR remind people in every message you send not to send directly
to you, OR come up with a new X- header that hints mailers not to send
directly to you in a list reply.

- Ken