On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:26 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > Lists aren't supposed to mung the reply-to header as it supposed to be > for the sender to direct replies to a different address. I think you'd find it hard to prove that they're not supposed to. But whether it's desirable, or not, is yet another matter. On most mailing lists (every single one that I've ever joined over the last umpteen years), the list is meant to be used by replying to the list. Setting the reply-to to the list has been the easiest way of achieving this, as most people don't know a thing about replying to alternative addresses, and many clients don't offer the feature (at all, or in a useful and understandable way). Unfortunately mail clients are an awful lot worse than usenet clients. None of which has ever prevented any poster from replying privately to someone. Those who've wanted to do that have realise that all they need to do is change the TO address to the person that they want to receive it. If this list stopped putting itself in the reply-to field, this list would become like all those useless "help" websites you see when googling for an answer (where you find pages where someone has asked what you want to know, and there are no responses for you to see). There'd be emails asking how to do something, and very few replies would be made back in public. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
