[Gllug] Reply-To Header Mangling

[Chris Jones]

Hi

Jason Clifford wrote:
> I don't claim an authority to demand what others do. Do you?

No. I have my opinions, but I've used email long enough to accept that
there are a roughly infinite number of ways to skin this cat and more
implementations than that ;)

> communication. It is a group communication and it's plain rude to send a
> message to such a public forum and demand that nobody share their
> responses with the rest of the forum.

>From RFC 2822:

"When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it
   indicates the mailbox(es) to which the author of the message suggests
   that replies be sent"

That's not really "demanding that nobody share their responses". The
"(es)" is also worth noting.

To pick a very recent example from this list, Bruce Perens' email was
entirely right to request replies off-list (to avoid spamming all other
subscribers), which could have been achieved automagically with a
Reply-To header, consistent list behaviour and smart email clients.

Cheers,
-- 
Chris Jones
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