Public Swikis

David Pennell dpennell at quallaby.com
Mon Dec 20 22:59:41 UTC 1999



> > I have also noticed in the past that sometimes the "Reply-to" was
> > set to the original sender rather than the list.  I think this is
> > something the original sender has control over (i.e. if you send a
> > message with a "Reply-to" header, I don't think the list overrides
> > it).
> 
> Agreed. The list server is as polite as possible.  This post was sent
> from stan.heckman at msfc.nasa.gov, with both from and reply-to headers
> set to stan at stanheckman.com. The list server did not munge the from
> header, even though it disagrees with the envelope, and it did not
> munge the reply-to header. 
> 
> These are religious wars. I happen to agree with Lex about which way
> is "the right way", but I don't agree that switching to "the right
> way" would make most people happier. I count 392 unique "From:"s on
> this list, and only 56 "Reply-To:"s. That's perhaps 336 unhappy
> squeakers if things changed. :-)

57 now.  I never bothered to set my "Reply-To:" since it is the same as
my "From:".  Thanks for the tip.

-david





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