The Wanderer (12019-10-31): > IMO, the correct behavior should indeed be the same for lists as for > private mail: reply to the source from which you received the message.
... and everybody who got it too. For example, if I reply to: # From: Colleague # To: Me # Cc: Boss it should be: # From: Me # To: Colleague # Cc: Boss > I am subscribed to dozens of mailing lists, and have been active on most > or all of them at various points in time. To get reply behavior to be > correct on all of them, I would need to set Reply-To to a different > value for each one. You do not need that because most mailing-list software does it for you: if you are subscribed to the mailing-list and there is no reply-to address in your mail, it sets it to the list. Debian is amongst the few mailing-lists that do not do that. This comes from the influence of the dogmatic people who wrote the infamous “"Reply-To" Munging Considered Harmful” document and designed a suboptimal solution instead. > I know of no way to get a mail client to automatically set Reply-To > differently depending on what message is being replied to Possible with Mutt: send-hook . "unmy_hdr Reply-To:" send-hook ~cdebian-u...@lists.debian.org my_hdr "Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org" > It should not be the responsibility of every sender to contrive some > configuration to automatically set Reply-To (or other non-default) > headers correctly for every different mailing list. I agree with that. Unfortunately, the Debian mailing-list makes it necessary. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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