[dm-devel] Reply-to munging

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Wed Jun 20 14:44:58 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:02:49PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Please change the list to stop munging reply-to headers.  See this for a 
> slew of reasons why it is bad:
> 
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
 
And here are some counter-arguments:
  http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml

Sorry, but mailman doesn't yet make it possible to please everyone.

Given the number of times that this discussion crops up on lists, I'm
surprised mailman doesn't yet have an option to let individual
subscribers opt out of Reply-To munging - it would be easy to implement.

Alasdair
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agk at redhat.com




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