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From: Peter Gerwinski
Subject: Munging "Reply-To:" considered harmful (was: GNU Pascal Anf?nger)
Date: 10 Mar 2001, 21:17:48
Marco van de Voort wrote:
> I use the Real Mailer [TM] mentioned on that site as example, AND I'm aware
> of the functionality. Still I make the mistake at least 50% of the time,
> simply because all other lists do have this done.
But those mistakes can be corrected. The mistakes that can arise
from a munged "Reply-To:" cannot.
> I also think his "against" arguments are either dubious or coloured, or
> non-existant in practice.
>
> I'm on maillists that have reply-to's for about a decade now, and never had
> any problem. (and more important, never heard any complaint about reply-to)
I once had the problem that I had almost sent a _very_ personal
reply to the whole list. After that I decided that I would stop
posting to any list with that "feature".
We hage another list here where one member cannot receive private
email at his "From:" address, so his personal "Reply-To:" header is
needed if one wants to reply personally to him.
These are two real-world examples for the arguments in
`http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html'.
Peter, who only had to press capital `L' for replying to the
list in `mutt' :-)
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