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

Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Sat Jul 10 09:20:00 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> In my opinion, many lists set the reply-to address because those lists
> are intended to keep replies on the list, and the list managers know
> that most people wouldn't do that if it wasn't preset for them.  People
> will just hit reply, and expect it to do the right thing.

I wonder, how do you think people are able to maintain private
conversations between multiple parties if they "will just hit reply"?

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Felipe Contreras


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