On Saturday 17 February 2007 00:13, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:33:40AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 15:16 -0600, Richard Laager wrote:
I see you've added a Reply-To header later. The canonical response in this case is for someone to reference: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
A canonical response to that is
My mind was not changed, sorry. First, RFC 822 is obsolete, and RFC 2822 does not contain the quoted paragraph. Instead it says that '[w]hen the "Reply-To:" field is present, it indicates the mailbox(es) to which the author of the message suggests that replies be sent.' - the author, not the mailing list software. There are other fields for that.
The rest of the arguments assume that lack of a "reply to list" or "follow up" command is the natural order of things. Sadly, almost no mailers do provide such a command, but munging Reply-To doesn't exactly increase pressure on vendors to implement it.
I guess this is a fight between ideal and reality, i.e. between agreeing on a direction and going there and staying where we are because no single individual has an incentive to take the leap. This is where the market fails.
Interestingly, Kmail seems to have some "anti-munging" feature - when the Reply-To address equals the List-Post address, I guess, the reply to author command ignores the Reply-To field. This doesn't work on some other mailing lists I'm on, which don't have List-* header fields.
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