[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reverting question
Dan Mick
Dan.Mick at West.Sun.COM
Wed Nov 15 03:48:04 CET 2000
> At 5:50 PM -0800 11/14/00, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> >2) If you don't want to take that advise, you certainly shouldn't overwrite
> > a users' reply to with the list's
>
> I'll disagree. If you feel you must coerce reply-to, coerce it
> unconditionally. You've already decided the list's needs outweigh the
> individual's needs, or you woudln't be coercing in the first place
> Once you make that decision, whether or not the user ALSO uses a
> reply-to is meaningless, and trying to take that into consideration
> only confuses things, because then the list has its reply-to coerced
> -- sometimes, and you have to know how to read mail headers ot figure
> out when. Not good for the typical user, who may never figure out why
> something isn't working randomly.
I have to agree with Chuq; all or nothing seems to be the only sane
policy. (and I'm a big Reply-To hater.)
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