On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, safemode wrote:

> Reply ALL also results in 2 mails being sent instead of one but of
> course this is usually not a problem since one is going direct and the
> other is going through vger, but still... it's kind of wasteful to
> resources and i dont see any harm in Reply-to being sent in the
> header.  Proftpd's mailing list seems to work fine with it. Is your
> position against it just due to client incompatibility?

As I see it, there are two reasons:

1. Historically, vger's turnaround time (for me at
   least) was several hours.  This makes it rather
   hard to hold a coherent discussion.

2. It enables people to distinguish discussions in
   which they are involved from the other noise on
   the list.

Matthew.

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