On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 17:15:59 -0400, William Herrin said: > Meh. This just means list software will have to rewrite the From > header to "From: John Levine <nanog@nanog.org>" and rely on the > Reply-To header for anybody who wants to send a message back to the > originator. > > Maybe this is a good thing - we can stop getting all the "sorry I'm > out of the office" emails when posting to a list.
The sort of programmer that writes out-of-mind software that doesn't employ the long well-known heuristics for detecting mailing lists (starting with checking Return-Path: for "owner-" and similar) will also likely disregard the Reply-To: header. This Is Not A Good Thing.
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