Herta Van den Eynde wrote: > Apologies for using "Reply" instead of "Reply to all". I'm used to > mailinglists putting the mailinglist's address in the reply-to field. > Any reason why this mailing list does not do that? Because the Reply-To header "belongs" to the author. Occasionally, it may be desirable to post private replies, and "stealing" the Reply-To header prevents that (mail clients won't let you reply to the From address if a Reply-To header exists). Not only does a forced Reply-To header prevent the message from being sent directly to the user, but will cause it to be sent to a public mailing list instead. If the reply was intending to be private, the message may well contain information which shouldn't be made public. The author can always choose to add their own Reply-To header if they never want to receive off-list replies. Having the mailing list set its own Reply-To header is a workaround for "non-technical" lists, where many of the subscribers may not understand the difference between "reply" and "follow-up". Presumably the vger admins (naïvely) assumed that a list targeted to Linux sysadmins doesn't need such workarounds. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
