>I have read the FAQ and the Manual, but this concept is still unclear to
>me. I would really like the reply to field to read:
>
>Reply-To: NAME OF MY LIST (listname@marquee.com)
This is really a bad idea.
>or something like that. So that people who recieve mail from the list know
>it's from the list, not just some random user, and so that they can reply
>directly to the list.
Mail sent to a mailing list will look like:
From: joe@foo.bar (Joe Smith)
To: mailing-list@listsite.baz
Subject: Whatever
Blah blah blah
The recipient can deduce, based on the fact that his address isn't
listed in the "To" header, that he received the message via the
"mailing-list" mailing list.
Just about every modern mail agent provides a way to reply either to
just the sender (From: or Reply-To:) or to everyone (From:/Reply-To:,
To:, and CC:).
The "fix" is educating users in carefully reading headers (a very
valuable skill) and learning how to operate their software (another
very important skill). Hacks like using Reply-To: to direct replies to
the list are bad because they discourage proper understanding and
usage of the system and penalize those who know how things really
work.
-Dave
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