OT - Mailing list headers

[John]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> John wrote:
> 
>>tbird doesn't have it.
> 
> 
> It is open source.  I don't use it or I would be motivated to supply a
> patch for it.  If someone was using it and wanting that feature you
> would think they would be motivated to fix that lack of functionality.
> 
> 
>>This is a discussion list, and one needs to be subscribe. I've managed 
>>lists with mailman, and IMV the correct setting for this list is reply 
>>to list.
> 
> 
> No, because that breaks Reply-To: for the purpose for which it was
> designed.  Don't create a bug to try to fix another bug.  That just
> ends you up with two bugs instead of one.  Another incarnation of two
> wrongs do not make a right.
> 
> Bob
> 

I thought the correct use of Reply-to: was to direct replies to the 
correct place: in this case the list.


Rather than just making assertions, explain why you're right.


Even if you are right, the current behaviour is inconvenient for many 
users who have no easy way round it.