[OSM-dev] reply-to setting of mailing list

[Florian Lohoff]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 08:56:31PM +0200, Stephan Knauss wrote:
> Subject: [OSM-dev] reply-to setting of mailing list
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I did not find a discussion about this. What are the feelings about this 
> list's reply-to setting?
> As the purpose is a discussion I consider it reasonable to have the 
> reply-to point to the list, not to the original poster.

I oppose this - I am discussing with people not with the list. I let
the list participate by putting it into the CC ...

Reply-To: to the list has some bad side effects concerning bounces, 
vacation etc - The list software has to be very good in eliminating those.

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                         flo at rfc822.org             
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