Re: linux-utf8 list policy

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, edmundo@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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.

Amen.  List software should not man-handle people into doing one thing
or the other, but endeavour to make both thing easy and hassle-free.

Anyway, I'll just set (broken-reply-to . t) in Gnus and get it over
with.

> 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


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