Re: Qmail mailing list and ReplyTo:

[Tim Pierce]

On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 08:32:16AM -0500, Peter Green wrote:
> > Why doesn't Qmail mailing list set the 
> > Reply To: field to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
> > It is very anoying that I must type the
> > mailing list address for every message
> > I respond to.
> 
> Check out http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html for a great
> reason *not* to set the Reply-To: header. Any reasonable mailer should
> have some sort of "reply to (l)ist, (s)ender, (b)oth" option.

Unfortunately, there's an awful lot of unreasonable mailers in the
world, which makes that philosophy impractical.  While I sympathize
with the opinions offered in "Reply-to Considered Harmful," it's
mostly ivory tower theorizing.

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Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades