people might have (inadvertantly) made direct to the author. If the reply-to
field was not "munged" people would have to choose to make the
threads readable by the list ( like a news group). If they didn't think about it,
or decided for some (shy/considerate) reason to make their responses not
to the group, then we'd really miss out on a lot of knowledge. my 2 cents.
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 08:40 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:10:58PM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote:Hm, I don't know what you would call munging, it puts the list address
into the Reply-To.
Daniel is probably referring to:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
... which expresses an opinion not that widely held.
No, it's that widely held. Been on mailing lists since I had a bang path.
It's harmful. Believe me.
Cheers,
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