Reply-To munging summary (was: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers)

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Thu Jul 8 16:16:45 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 11:43:10 -0430,
  Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That surely is up to the receiver, not the sender. Furthermore, as it
> will vary from list to list it seems impractical to have to set it
> individually for each post if the MUA doesn't support it automatically
> (Evolution doesn't).

Yeah, you really need support in the clients for this to work well. Mutt
has a way to do this, but typically I don't use it as I find getting
separately addressed useful. (This used to be especially true on the
postgres lists about 5 years ago. They had a large latency at that time.)


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