On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 08:48:17AM -0800, William Yardley wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:07:01AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > > Eugeny N Dzhurinsky <eugenydzh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Is it possible to automatically add reply-to header with address > > > of mailing list when posting message to the mailing list? > > > > That's not what Reply-To: is for. It is, however, what the > > Mail-Followup-To: header is for. > > That's debatable.... M-F-T was never adopted as an official standard and > is implemented by only a few MUAs (and not by any popular ones). > Reply-To will work for this purpose, and will be honored by more > mailers. Well, it isn't really debatable that this is not what Reply-To is for... Reply-To exists so that the sender can tell the people he is corresponding with that the e-mail address which appears on his mail may be wrong, and to supply them with the best address at which to reach him. People use it this way now, but that isn't its purpose, and IMNSHO it is a misuse of the feature. The problem with using it this way is it makes it much harder for people to reply personally to the sender, if that is what they want to do. Some mailers have no option to ignore the reply-to header, and some mailers don't even show you the reply-to header, so when you go to reply to the mail you may not even notice that your message is not going to be sent to the person you want it to be sent to. With some mailers, if you do notice, you may have to quit the message to go back and see what the right e-mail address is. That sucks. Yeah yeah, you should check your headers before you send the mail, and all that happy crap, but the fact is that's not human nature. People come to expect things to work a particular way, and when it doesn't work that way, it screws them up. Using reply-to in this manner goes against the principle of least surprise, and has lead to many embarassing moments, as I personally can attest to. =8^) Just say no to reply-to. Don't use it, unless you have a genuine need. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
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