mail to individuals

[Derek Broughton]

Odd wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Michael Haney wrote:
>> 
>>> The response from most of the support group to my problem is similar
>>> to the response of some people in this group over the email issue,
>>> they suggest replacing the monitor just like people here suggest
>>> replacing the email client rather than facing up to the real issue at
>>> hand.  They don't want to be bothered with being fair to every user
>>> who happens to use their email client of choice because in their minds
>>> the one they use is the best and everyone else who doesn't do it their
>>> way is wrong.
>> 
>> OK - but YOU want to break _my_ client's standard's compliant handling of
>> list mail, by putting in a Reply-To header.  Doing something wrong
>> because
>> everybody else is doing something wrong, doesn't make it right.  So sure,
>> go ahead and use a broken client if you want, but don't demand that the
>> list be crippled because you insist on doing so.
> 
> How would the list be crippled by adding a Reply-To: header?
> It would still include the List-Post: header.

Strictly speaking, I believe that, to be standards compliant, the List-Post 
would be irrelevant.  When the Reply-To header is present, all clients 
should default to replying to that address.  Reply-To is used specifically 
to force responses to go to somewhere other than the originator.  Doing that 
on a mailing list is an abuse.
-- 
derek