Henne Vogelsang wrote: > [...] > would everone be able to live with a majority decision about this > matter? Looks like not all people trust me enough to decide this based > on the arguments presented. I would do this by mail to me. Do you trust > me enough to count votes?
I think there are several (technical and non-technical) arguments for *not* having a reply-to header, most of them are summarized in the reply-to-harmful document that has already been mentioned here many times. The argument list for having a reply-to header seems to be very short judging from what I've seen here on this list so far, mainly driven by people who don't have or don't use a "list reply" functionality in their MUA. Regardless of all the technical arguments, I don't think it's fair to sacrifice the "list reply" vs. "reply" functionality -- which is very convenient for mutt, kmail or thunderbird (with patch) users; other MUAs might have it as well -- by introducing a global reply-to header. This would render the list-reply vs. reply functionality virtually useless (both replies would then be addressed to the mailing list, leaving no choice for users) only to make life more convenient for people who use a less sophisticated MUA (I avoid the term "broken" here) and are not able or not willing to use this list-reply functionality. This would clearly be a step backwards judging from the percentage of people that use one of the above mentioned MUAs. Having said that, as a logical conclusion I don't understand the reason for a poll as the decision made by Henne was based on the arguments and not on personal preferences. If there is a poll, I vote against the reply-to header. Cheers, Th. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
