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[jdow]

From: "Todd Zullinger" <tmz at pobox.com>
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> jdow wrote:
>> What's interesting here is that the FC4 list gives about half the
>> messages two addresses in the "Reply-to:" field. The other half
>> have only the list as the "Reply-to:" field. I am not sure what
>> causes this.
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> The list software (mailman) can be configured to strip or not strip
> any existing reply-to headers before (optionally) adding its own.
> This appears to be how this list is setup.  So anyone that includes
> their own reply-to header in mail sent to the list will have both
> their address and the list address in there.  More often than not, the
> reply-to address people use is the same as the from address, making
> the addition of a reply-to address quite pointless.

After I sent the message I did some looking around at various
emails. I've not dug deep enough to see if this is an issue
specific to a small set of email programs or not. However, I am
inclined to doubt it is a user level misconfiguration.

{^_^}