On Fri, Apr 26, 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: weird stuff in linux-il": > How many people use Reply-To when posting to this list? > > I recall quite a few.
I see we're starting the election debates... Who cares if people are using Reply-To? First, 99% of the people don't deliberately set a Reply-To: (it's so easy to set the From: nowadays... setting Reply-To: was useful in the olden-days where 10 friends would share one Unix account...). But more importantly, being in a mailing list is not about getting personal mail - you should expect to be replied *on* the list, not to your personal email address. In many lists, insisting to be replied in person is considered rude, even a faux pas. Most lists do not even allow a person to post if they are not subscribed first (this was not done only to curb spam! The first spam I ever got was in 1997. Mailing lists have existed well before that). And you can check the archives of this list for a count of people who are deliberately setting a Reply-To: for a valid [1] reason. I dare you to find more than 2. The only one I found in a cursory search is Geoffrey Mendelson, and even he wouldn't have needed this trick if he just subscribed the address he really wanted. Many more people set the Reply-To: to the list address in an attempt to stop people from CC:-ing them copies of the reply. [1] By valid I mean that the Reply-To: is different from both the From: and the mailing-list address. Ira used to use two different "fake" (marked) addresses for the From: and Reply-To: address, but frankly I fail to see the usefulness in that either. -- Nadav Har'El | Saturday, Apr 27 2002, 15 Iyyar 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Unlike Microsoft, a restaurant will give http://nadav.harel.org.il |me food for free if I find a bug in it! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
