David Holm wrote:
> Note that the patch has already been applied so no need to patch your kernel!
>
> BTW, why hasn't anyone set the mailing list to automatically set the reply-to
> address to [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
Because the poster may not be a list subscriber, and the most
important person to reply to is the poster. It's up to the
poster's MUA to know that the poster is a subscriber to the
list, and set the "Reply-To:" on the basis of that knowledge.
This could be done on the server, but there are two reasons not
to do it in the mailing list manager:
1) It's computationally expensive, and all processing that
could be done on either the server or the client, should
be done on the client, to ensure that the deployment
scales.
2) There is a draft RFC which is under consideration by the
IETF, and is likely to become an issued RFC, which requires
that certain headers not be altered by mailing list managers;
specifically, all non hop-to-hop headers should not be
modified by the mailing list manager, and "Reply-To:" is an
end-to-end header, not a hop-to-hop header. Sof if it isn't
in violation of an RFC for the mailing list software to set
the "Reply-To:" now, it likely will be, in the near future.
-- Terry
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