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

[Florian Lohoff]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:24:56PM +0200, Stephan Knauss wrote:
> Florian Lohoff wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Vacation mails should never be activated for mailing list.

"should" - But they are regularly and often used Software like
Lotus Notes even eliminated ALL headers, does not set any precedence
etc ... The times where people unsubscribed from lists while
on vacation are gone for 15 Years ...

> I do not see how this would be related the the mailing list software.  
> The vacation mail would then be sent to everyone posting to the list.

The vacation would go back to the list and when the mailing list software
is not capable of detecting the vacation because of a broken vacation
program (e.g. Lotus Notes) you have a mail loop ..

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                         flo at rfc822.org             
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