The new linux-il - a few tips to get you (re)started

[Micha Feigin]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:45:33 +0200
Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz> wrote:

> Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> > The only sane and foolproof method is to have mailman set the Reply-To
> > field to the list address. This is a fantastically appropriate moment
> > to do it.
> >
> >   
> If you want to bring THAT discussion up, then at the very least address 
> the stated shortcomings of your proposed setting. As long as you ignore 
> those, you are talking, but not listening (in other words, this isn't a 
> discussion).
> 
> They are listed at http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, but 
> the ones I mostly want answered are these two:
> 
>     * With reply to set to the list, the failure mode is catastrophic,
>       while with it not, the failure mode merely means having to resend
>       a message.
>     * Sending a private message with reply to list is much much much
>       more difficult than sending a public message without it.
> 
> Shachar
> 

That is true, setting reply-to to point to the list is not a good solution. The
proper solution is to set the list header so that modern MUA can use the reply
to list button. Reply-to should reply to sender, reply-to-list should reply to
list.

Happily mailman does this while the previous setting didn't which caused me to
send a lot of private messages by mistake at the time. At the moment I don't
see that there is anything to fix as all that needed fixing was fixed by the
move to mailman.

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