JG = Jeffrey Goldberg <J.Goldberg@cranfield.ac.uk>
AB = Anne Bennett <anne@alcor.concordia.ca>
AB> I am considering patching
AB> this so that Majordomo supplies the Reply-To (if configured to do so, of
AB> course) *only* if the message does not already have a Reply-To header.
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AB> The only (problem) I can think of right now is that a few list users
AB> may have "Reply-To" set to their own "main" e-mail address for all of
AB> their outgoing mail, so replies to those people's routine posts would
AB> not go to the whole list even though the list config says they should.
JG> I think that this is more serious than you think. If it happens just a
JG> few times (and it will happen more than that), the behaviour users will
JG> see will be very peculiar. They will see that sometimes their replies go
JG> to the list, and sometimes their replies don't.
True, though this is in fact what I want, sort of.
JG> Presumably you are doing
JG> this whole thing, because you don't trust your list members abilities to
JG> manually check where their replies go to.
I know for a fact that they don't check -- which probably just adds to
the "religious war" argument that we should not use Reply-To at all. :-/
JG> So, unless you want some very
JG> confused users, seeing what to them is very inconsistent behaviour, then I
JG> think that this is a mistake.
I have very confused users already, but your point is a good one. :-)
JG> A possible alternative is very much like the one that you have, but
JG> instead of looking for existing reply-to's it looks for some other
JG> header. Say,
JG>
JG> X-set-list-reply-to:
JG>
JG> This depends on the people sending the announcements to be able to
JG> set such headers with their clients.
Right. Aside from the fact that most people here would have trouble
setting arbitrary headers, does this really solve the problem you
raise? We'd still have some postings going out with "reply to list"
and some with "reply-to set by poster" -- though I grant that by using
some other header as you suggest, we'd see the difference *only* in
the case where the poster purposely wanted to override the list's
reply-to header. Hmm. I will think about this some more. Thanks for
your good points.
Anne.
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Ms. Anne Bennett, Senior Analyst, IITS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8
anne@alcor.concordia.ca +1 514 848-7606
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