Reply-to mangling

On 17 Jul 2005, at 13:35, Byron A Jeff wrote:
> Just an E-mail aside. The linuxhacker.org list tends to drop the  
> original
> author on the CC list for replies. So you end up getting two  
> copies. It's

I'm starting to think maybe I should turn reply-to mangling on after  
all. The lists that mangle the reply-to header seem to be very much  
in the majority now, so it does tend to confuse people the first time  
they encounter one that doesn't (I've had a few people complain  
privately to me that "the list seems to be broken" because of this  
over the years). Also the much talked about "reply to list" mail  
client feature (which would have allowed you to choose between  
replying publicly or privately with a single mouse click) hasn't been  
implemented in the vast majority of mail clients, so working around  
it by messing with reply-to in the list server is the next best  
thing. I'm on a lot of mailing lists that have reply-to mangling  
turned on and it does make it easier to reply to the list instead of  
to the sender, which is what you want to do most of the time. I do  
still see people publicly posting messages that they meant to send  
privately because of the mangling, but I haven't done it myself for  
years because I've got into the habit of always carefully examining  
the "To" line before hitting send.

Comments?

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