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[Matthias Andree]

Nick Simicich <njs at scifi.squawk.com> writes:

>>That's exactly the problem Mail-Followup-To: strives to fix -- or "List
>>Reply" buttons in mail user agents. (Some will also use group reply to mean
>>list reply when they see list headers.)
>
> You know?  If all (or even most) mailing lists set reply-to, then most
> people would be able to run with non-group reply, because individual
> mail would go to individuals and mailing list mail would go to mailing
> lists.

No. Reply-To: takes precedence for either function, which is why I'm not
discussing this further.

> There are all sorts of other things you can so, or that various MUAs
> have done. But the thing that everyone ends up on is group reply, and
> then editing the headers, but they always forget to edit the headers,
> and some misinformed purist will always jump on people who suggest
> that maybe, just maybe, we should follow RFC822 the way it was written
> and change RFC822.  By the way, I run a couple dozen mailing lists,
> all have reply-to set, and the false spectre of individual replies
> going to the group is just that.  It happens once every couple of
> months, while the piles of extra messages happen every day.

May I ask you to read http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html? It is getting
adopted by more and more mail software, and it helps address the
original problem.

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Matthias Andree