Re: [GENERAL] Adding Reply-To: to Lists - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Adding Reply-To: to Lists
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Msg-id 3035.24.211.141.25.1101712650.squirrel@www.dunslane.net
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Adding Reply-To: to Lists  (Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>)
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Doug McNaught said:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
>
>> No, the poster will still be included as part of the headers ... what
>> happens, at least under Pine, is that I am prompted whther I want to
>> honor the reply-to, if I hit 'y', then the other headers *are* strip'd
>> and the mail is set right back to the list ...
>
> I'm in the "Reply-To considered harmful" camp.  I also don't see any
> real evidence that the current setup is causing problems.
>


And the historical document referred to can be found here:

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

and an opposing view here:

http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml


cheers

andrew



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