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[Bill Jonas]

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On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:41:18AM -0500, Darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
> Ah, I had forgotten.  Still, I got 3 responces to the previous thread - o=
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> went only directly to me, and the other 2 went to both me and the list.  =
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> being able to hit L does not fix that.  It's annoying.

There are procmail recipies available to discard duplicate messages,
using formail, I think, if it bothers you.  Ask Google.

I dunno.  I'm on more than one other list that doesn't set the Reply-To,
and it doesn't bother me.  In a way, it's kind of convenient, IMO, if
there's a copy in my inbox; I notice it that much faster.  It doesn't
bother me if there's not, though.

Another handy side-effect for using Mutt's mailing-list features is that
you know right away (via the "No mailing lists found!" error message) if
someone's trying to turn a public Q&A into a private tutoring session.
In fact, because of those lists that don't give you an easy way to reply
to just the sender, I've set ignore_list_reply_to in my .muttrc.

In any case, there tends to be an upper bound on the number of
recipients for a message on a non-Reply-To-munging list, whether it's
via people manually trimming the recipient list or using an
at-least-half-decent MUA.

One downside to a list unilaterally imposing a Reply-To header is that
in those rare cases where it's appropriate to cross-post, the poster who
is cross-posting the right way by setting a Reply-To gets overridden.
There are other reasons, outlined in the "Reply-To Munging Considered
Harmful" essay; the opposing viewpoint is set out in "Reply-To Munging
Considered Helpful" (Google knows).

Oh well.  cjf is the admin for this list, not us. :)  (Personally, I'd
like to get rid of the Reply-To on PLUG, but that probably won't happen
due to inertia.)

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