Re: reply to setting list request

Bruno Rodrigues wrote:

>Bill Brigden <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>It seems like a small thing, but could the reply-to be set to the list - as
>>I have replied to messages before and not replied to the list - so when
>>people look through archives it seems like some questions remain unanswered
>>when infact they may have done!
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>>Also - a really small thing, but when replying to people, they reply to the
>>list and the poster, so people like me get 2 copies of the mail!
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>>This is just what I have picked up on while being on the list - feel free to
>>shoot my comments down!
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>http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
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>Adding Reply-To is opening a can of worms.
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>Good mailers have three options: reply to sender, reply to all and reply
>to list. If we add Reply-To, you'll be always limited to reply to list,
>unless you edit your To/CC addresses by hand.
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What do you consider "good" mailing clients?
I did not see "reply to list" option in any one of the email clients i 
used...
And how would mailer "guess" that [email protected] is a list?..
This is not newsgroup, where [really] there should be "reply to group" 
option available in client...
So what really happens is no-matter-what in 90% cases when replying to a 
message from list you should edit the to/cc fields by hand to get the 
desired effect (which is "send message only to the list")
Pity... but thats what it is about...

But i agree that adding reply-to would not be good because list would 
explode of malicious content.

What maybe is posible is to make matching of addresses on the majordomo 
(or whatever is used) [vs. the to/cc headers] and exclude addresses 
which are already entitled as recipients from sending bulk for current 
message...
I am not sure this option exists, but i personally would think about 
implementing it if i would deal with mailinglists software :)

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>You should always only reply to list unless the other person askes to
>also reply to him ("Please also reply to me as I'm not subscribed to the
>list"). As we require subscription, this is not required and you should
>always reply only to list.
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>Besides, unfortunatly lots of people use broken mail agents, broken mail
>servers and broken "vacation" scripts, and if you have Reply-To, you'll
>get NDR's, virus and vacation notices to the list instead of going to
>the
>sender, which is very bad.
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>No Reply-To is common usage in most FreeSoftware's important mailing
>lists and we'd like to keep it this way.
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>>Regards,
>>Bill.
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