Paul Tansom paul@whaletales.co.uk wrote: [Reply-to MUNG]
Not quite sure how it removed the reply off-list option, but that may just be because I've not been playing with email clients for a bit. [...]
OK, normally email clients have two options: "reply" which uses the Reply-To line if set, or the From line otherwise; "reply to all" which adds the To and Cc contents to that. Because some mailing lists started to reset Reply-To to point to the list, some email clients (including mutt) ask you whether to use Reply-To or From if both seem valid. However, if the From address wasn't the address where off-list replies should go, removing the original Reply-To removes the off-list reply possibility...
This horrible situation has made Reply-To basically useless in many situations and a range of ugly non-standard hacks and kludges have grown up, including Mail-Followup-To.
and a very few actually have the headers for a special list reply
RFC2919 or similar and we support them, I believe.
No, I don't believe you do, unless the Mutt List Reply option uses an alternative method. Using L to reply to list gives an error stating no list found.
Yes, we do. I just checked and the List-Id, List-Post and other headers are present on ALUG mailing lists.
As of October 2002, when I last checked, mutt did not support these headers and required you to add list email addresses to your configuration file in order for the "list reply" command to work. I'm sure they'd love a patch.
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..and that's all MJ Ray wrote I'm afraid
http://learn.to/attribute while I'm being prescriptive.
No, I've not done that, I usually end up sending a replying to too few people, mainly with lists where I forget to group reply. [...]
Well, the damage from that is limited to normally having to forward something from the sent mail folder, which is much less severe, IMO.
Anyway, for me I think this sub-thread is finished. [...]
OK, np.
I would, out of curiosities sake, be interested in figures/estimates on the amount of extra traffic caused [...]
Most of the list hosts which take advertising force reply-to to point to the list, which I think is probably an indication that it is significant ;-)