On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 01:36:47PM -0800,
Kai MacTane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> And also see the discussion forum that's linked to at the bottom of that
> essay for some differing opinions. One of the more common responses is that
> without munging, people who hit "Reply to All" in their MUA then need to
> trim or cull the To: and Cc: fields to remove all other email addresses;
> otherwise, people will get multiple copies of replies to their own posts.
That is why people should add Mail-Followup-To headers when posting to lists.
That way the responder doesn't need to worry about whether the author
was on the list or not, that header will indicate where group replies
should go.
This feature can even be used to redirect stuff to a smaller subset of lists
or to an alternate list. Or it could be used to redirect replies to just
the author so that he can summarize them.
A reply-to header set by the list server can't do any of that and will break
things if the author had a reply-to header of his own that was removed.
