Quoting Mark Crocker (mcrocker_at_micron.com):
> What's the big deal? I can't believe we're still harping on this
> issue. Just use "reply to all" in your email client and everything
> should work just fine -- unless of course the author puts in a
> Reply-To and it messes everything up.
Trouble is, that on many mailers, "reply to all" will send to the list AND
the originator of the message, who ends up with two copies. Even worse, when
there's a big thread like this, the To: line just keeps on growing and
growing and growing. My prefered mailer, mutt, has a list-reply function,
which always does the right thing, but at the cost of having to put the
names of all the lists I'm on in my .muttrc.
In conclusion, though I'm aware of the various issues with munging the
Reply-To: line, it is the solution which works least badly with the greatest
proportion of mailers. The Reply-To: line is rarely used in the "I'm not
really there, I'm here" fashion, since it's so easy to just forge the From:
line, and as a result renaming that header to something else and replacing
it will cause distress it such a miniscule proportion of cases as to not be
worth considering.
None of this is very important to the fvwm list though, which probably has
among its readers a greater proportion of people using sane RFC-compliant
email software combined with functioning grey matter than most mailing lists
on the Internet.
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Adam Rice -- wysiwyg_at_glympton.airtime.co.uk -- Blackburn, Lancashire, England
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Received on Thu Jan 07 1999 - 01:14:12 GMT