Re: Goodbye ReplyTo munging...

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Marc-Olivier Barre wrote:
On 8/14/07, Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh great, now filtering is broken, because I only get one copy of the
message, the one sent to my email, while the "list copy" does not get
sent to me, so filtering by List-Id (which is default on many email
clients, both desktop- and web-based) does not work.

Right, so deactivating reply-to munging broke  your filter... Of
course. Did it occur to you that it might just be you filters that are
broken ?

OK, stay with me for a while and let's reason together.

Filtering based on List-Id is filtering based on something that the mailing list server does. It relies on actions taken by the mailing list server, which do not depend on what the email client of the sender does. Therefore, it is more reliable because it does not change with every different email client.

If I set the list to remove duplicates, I only receive the private reply, which depends on the email client of the sender, which may or may not do the right thing. Therefore, filtering is less reliable, because it depends on all those email clients out there to do something.

By forcing a Reply-To header, all messages are forced to go through the mailing list server, therefore something (such as setting the List-Id) can be done to each message, which allows for reliable and simple filtering: only one header, it never changes (unless someone changes the settings on the mailing list server).

By de-centralizing the message routing, all that is lost.

--
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/
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