On 2018-02-05 08:40:27 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2018-02-05 at 08:11, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2018-02-05 01:53:02 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > >> My preference is for any personal replies addressed to me to go to > >> me, and I'd use the Reply-to header (as intended) if I needed it to > >> go somewhere else. But replies to the list should go to the list > >> (only) (unless otherwise requested), as per list policy. > > > > You should set up a "Mail-Followup-To:" for that. This is entirely > > your problem. > > That does seem to be the trend and position of the world, especially in > recent years, but I disagree as a matter of philosophy. > > A mailing list whose subscribers can post to it is a discussion forum.
However, for debian-user, non-subscribers can also post. So, for mail without a "Mail-Followup-To:", it may be difficult to do the "right" thing automatically. > Replies to a message which was posted to a discussion forum should, by > default, go back to that forum. If the poster wants the replies to go > somewhere else, it is that poster's responsibility to indicate this > fact, whether by message headers, signature comments, explicit > statements in the body of the message, or some other means. I would say that to avoid ambiguities, in any case, the poster should use a "Mail-Followup-To:" to indicate what he wants (unless he doesn't care). Just like for "date -d", ambiguities should always be avoided. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)