Please don't munge ‘Reply-To’ (was: bzr 1.8 released)

[Ben Finney]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> Just as a side-comment, when sending out announcements like this, we
> should set the "Reply-To" to be just the bzr mailing list.

The ‘Reply-To’ field should not be set at all by the mailing list
software.

    <URL:http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful>

> Otherwise people replying accidentally send stuff to places they don't
> really intend (gnu announce, bazaar-announce, etc.)

Why would that happen accidentally, unless the ‘Reply-To’ field is
incorrectly set in the first place?

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Ben Finney