Re: linux-utf8 list policy

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@xxxxxxxx>]

Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx>:

> > why is this mailing list clobbering the Reply-To header?
> 
> I'm responsible for the configuration of this list. The Reply-To field
> is set in order to encourage public replies. The number of posts with
> surprising content and the unexpected direction some discussions take
> both show that the participants can learn a lot from each other.

With my mail client I press 'g' to reply to the list or 'r' to reply
to the author. Apparently Mutt knows how to ignore clobbered Reply-To
headers. However, clobbering the Reply-To header sometimes destroys
information that cannot be recovered: the author may have deliberately
set the Reply-To field to be different from the From field.

See http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, the last part of
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~commtech/listown.html, and maybe also
http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html

Edmund
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