"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2006-04-19, Wayne Topa penned: >>> >> >> folder-hook debian-user my_hdr Reply-To: >> 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > > It must be considered harmful by somebody: > > http://gmane.org/faq.php > > [quote] > But I did use a valid email address. > Perhaps you did in your From, but your Reply-To address pointed to the > mailing list. Don't do that. > [/quote] > > Other than that (and I'm not sure why they don't like it), it sounds > like a reasonable approach to me.
There is a distinction between a reply (goes to the sender) and a followup (goes to the list). Gnus for example supports both concepts (don't know about other user agents). Now if somebody wants to send a (private) reply to the sender and the sender had set Reply-To to the list the mail goes to the list instead. This might be not a good thing. Another aspect is that there is no convenient way to send a private reply to the sender when he had set Reply-To to the list. You then can only do this by manually copy/paste of the From address. The worst is when the list manager software automaticalle sets Reply-To to the list address. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
