On Thu, 29 May 2003, MJ Ray wrote:
Sorry. The message I replied to was a little terse too, not the first time that person had raised this, added nothing new to the topic, and is definitely a FAQ.
Can a link to the FAQ be made available on the mailman archive page?
Setting reply-to is non-standard, destroys data and breaks some mail clients, so neither setting nor leaving it pleases everyone.
Or perhaps just a link to a discussion of the problems associated with reply-to, such as at http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
In the absence of consensus, this list supports RFC-2369 and RFC-2919 (email headers that start List-) so that good email software can be customised to do whatever its owner wants. You can do this with filters that set a Reply-To (eg using maildrop with formail) or specific mailing list support settings in your email reader.
Again, links to references on how to tweak mail programs would be a friendly thing to do.
Now, how about you being polite and respectful too? ;-)
My previous response (and this one) have been carefully crafted to be as polite and respectful as possible. If there's something you took offense to, please let me know so I can avoid it in future.
Cheers,
Andrew.