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[Jay R. Ashworth]

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.

Interestingly enough, there *is* one circumstance in which that's
useful behaviour:

Support mailing lits.  When all the support people, either paid or
volunteer, actually subscribe, but people wanting help aren't required
to, it's useful for the mailing list to mung the RT header to include
both the original poster, and the list, and maintain it that way, even
if another poster screws with it.

The LinuxGazette.net Answer Gang list used to work that way, before
Phil Hughes forced us to go our own way, and I'm investigating patching
Mailman to do it internally, since it seems a useful capability to be
able to turn on for such lists.

Cheers,
-- jra
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