[Mailman-Developers] Modifications to msg

[Marc MERLIN]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 08:12:54PM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote:
> RFC 2822 explicitly states that Reply-To can contain a list of
> headers. RFC 822 is more ambiguous.  To my mind this single fact (if
> used with Reply-To aggregation) obviates most of the arguments in the
> Reply-To Munging Considered Harmful document.

Not  really, it  only addresses  the limited  problem that  Reply-To munging
removes the Reply-To that the posting user could have been set.
In the case  where I want replies  to go to another address  than my posting
address, that's  fine, and  indeed extending Reply-To:  is much  better than
replacing it.
This doesn't affect however the many other problems including:
- me trying to set a reply-to to redirect traffic to another list
  (not that it works that well anyway, but at least it can give a clue)
- you replying to me privately without having to hand edit headers
- mailing list loops with broken autoresponders)
- etc...
  (see reply-to considered harmful document for "etc")

Marc
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