[tpop3d-discuss] Re: OFFTOPIC: reply-to munging

[Paul Makepeace]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:25:56AM +0100, Paul Warren wrote:
> munged Reply-Tos - how would he achieve it?  It's not as far fetched as
> it sounds.

For the 0.001% of people this realistically applies to (anecdotal
amount) they can put "please reply to <user@fascistpolicy.com> in the
body of the message"

> Add to this the facts that:
>  
>  - I like the long To: / CC: lists as this allows my client to highlight
>    messages that are a reply to me.

Ooops, well I broke that didn't I, using mutt's list-reply ("L"). You
can easily tell in either case (i.e. regardless of scheming users
removing Cc:s) by switching threading on and watching for replies after
yours which are labelled F.

>  - Reply-to munging leads to accidental, and occassionally embarrassing
>    on-list replies.

Again, for the 0.001% of the time this happens and people learn fast.
It's about weighing up one inconvenience v. another. This happens, IMO,
so infrequently it really doesn't bear much on any argument.

>  - You know I'm right :-)
> 
> and there seems to be little doubt as to what the correct solution is...
> ;-)

Well, with the reply-to: author scheme I'd personally not be inclined to
name this is a "-discuss" list.

(another) Paul

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