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[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:14:29PM -0400, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth propounded (on Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:51:52PM -0400):
> | On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:06:50AM -0400, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> | > Joe Acquisto propounded (on Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 07:39:16AM -0400):
> | > | Hopefully, that had nothing to do with my initial assumption that this
> | > | list handled reply-to's as "many" other lists do.  Different strokes.
> | > 
> | > A mailing list does not handle Reply-To headers, not at all.  It is
> | > *your* MUA that handles them.
> | 
> | Would that this were the case, JP.
> | 
> | As you well know, many mailing lists *do* in fact set the Reply-To: --
> | they set it back to themselves, as the aforementioned screed implores
> | them not to.
> 
> I was not talking at all about who or what *sets* a Reply-To Header.  I
> was talking about who or what eventually *handles* such a header.

Misread.

... but if by 'handles', you mean 'reacts to', then that's still not
always accurate; some munging mailing list handlers will *merge* a
received Reply-To with their own address, instead of replacing it.

And of course, my proposed patches to Mailman would put it in the
category of reacting to a Reply-To as well.  

Cheers,
-- jra
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