More on Reply-To (was: Re: [lug] Hacking Society Meeting tonight!)

[John Hernandez]

True, it would be nice to add a preference into the MUAs:

Honor reply-to
Ignore reply-to
Ask before using reply-to

For even more flexbility, one could make it also configurable per 
domain or even per sender.

One generally cool feature I've seen in many recent applications is a 
preset of "ask", combined with the ability to check a button that says 
"remember my answer and stop bugging me".

Tkil wrote:
>>>>>>"Rob" == Rob Riggs <rob at pangalactic.org> writes:
>>>>>
> 
> Rob> Sure, blame the nasty reply-to header and the mailing list
> Rob> software.  It was a user error akin to forgetting to hit the
> Rob> spell check button.
> 
> Hm.  I don't quite agree with that.  Not really for exactly the same
> reasons as the "Reply-To Munging Considered Harmful" document, but for
> the simple reason that it makes these mailing lists act different than
> normal mail, usenet news, and most other mailing lists.  Since lists
> are a combination or cross between these two forms, I'd prefer that
> they behave the same except when they must differ.  Reply-To munging
> is an unnecessary incompatibility, as it were.
> 
> Rob> Why don't you just write a elisp macro to deal with it on your
> Rob> MUA? ;)
> 
> That's harder than you might think.  There are cases where Reply-To is
> properly set by the author of the message, and it should be honored;
> that's one reason why having the mailing-list software insert it is a
> bad idea.
> 
> *shrug*  Maybe I need to implement an "ignore Reply-To values in this
> list" feature.
> 
> t.
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