[Mailman-Developers] here we go again... (are these headers really right?)

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 09:54  AM, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> 1. Stick the list posting address back in the To header and probably
>    not include the recipient's address in a mail header.

my first preference.

>
> 2. Leave the recip's address in To, but add a CC back to the list


my second choice.

Both of these re-enable what I think is "right" here -- reply to 
author, reply-all to author and list.


>
> 3. Munge Reply-To so that the list's address gets in there somehow

I don't like this -- because it removes the reply/reply-to dichotomy 
above.

> So I'm inclined to add #2, but only if reply_goes_to_list isn't "This
> List", since I don't think you need the list address in there twice.
>

that seems to me best compromise. If you don't coerce reply-to, stick 
the list in CC so the replies work right. If you DO coerce reply-to, 
then it takes precedence and leave it alone.

> How's that different than what we do now (modulo one of the fixes
> above)?
>

It's not...


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