> From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 21 October 2002 01:16

> And then theres ...
> 
> http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml

Quote from there:

"It Doesn't Break Reasonable Mailers

If you use a reasonable mailer, Reply-To munging does provide new functionality,
namely the ability to reply only to the list. Furthermore, it does not decrease
functionality. In Pine, for example, when there is a Reply-To header, Pine will
ask, ``Use "Reply-To:" address instead of "From:" address?'', easily allowing 
one
to reply only to the original author. In KMail, it is even easier. One merely
right-clicks on the hyperlinked From address. 

If your mailer doesn't have this option, you should request it from its 
development
team. Any mailer, whose development team refuses this simple request due to some
ideological position, cannot be said to be reasonable."

Well, news flash, most of the mailers on the windows platform aren't considered 
'reasonable'.
Reply-To munging _does_ decrease functionality in both Outlook and Outlook 
Express.
The essay talks about procmail being a Unix centric approach; ignoring the most 
common
MS MUAs is most definitatle doing the same.  Ask the development team? Ha!


Sander

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