> On 2018-03-13, at 15:05, Torsten Kracke <tokra@tokra.de> wrote: > >>>> Yeah... I can't imagine how on Mother Earth _ignoring_ a fully established functional header can be done by default and called improvement. >>> >>> I can, and now I want this is my client. Reply-to munging on mailing >>> lists is considered harmful. Ignoring the Reply-To header if the mail >>> also has a list header sounds like the way of least harm. >> What do you mean 'least harm'? I prefer that a mailing list behaves like a normal email. Meaning when I reply to it, the reply goes to where it came from, the sender of the mail, or if from a mailing list, the mailing list. >> Very rarely I need a direct reply circumventing the list. > > This link seems to make a good point: > > https://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Do you use "reasonable mailer" called elm? > I can see in my Thunderbird (52.6.) there are TWO buttons "Reply" and "List Reply" right next beside it. The right one sends to "cbm-hackers@musoftware.de" and the original "reply"-button to the author of the mail. Seems pretty straight-forward to me. Do you believe that _remembering_ which keystroke / button to use in particular situation is more straight-forward than not remembering it? Besides, Reply-to: is exactly useful for this particular reason: I send from an address "a" but please don't respond to it, please respond to address "b", which I give you in the extra header. How a "reasonable mailer" may elect to ignore that _by default_ is beyond me. P. S. Do you immediately know what "munging" is? Oxford dictionary doesn't.. And I hardly consider setting a well-established header or not setting it "munging". All in all seems like an opinionated piece written by an avid elm user well over a decade ago. Kind of reminds me of strong opinions of about similar time, explaining why using "special" characters is harmful and how much it is better to vandalise various non-English languages when writing an e-mail in order not to do "harm". EOT (of the OT ;-) -- SD!Received on 2018-03-14 22:49:20
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