List header cancer (was: Lawsuits, Red Hat, yummy....)

[Jeff Macdonald]

On 10/17/07, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 10/17/07, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> >> Additionally please send email either to the listserv or to the poster
> >> you are replying to, but not both.
> >
> > Au contraire, please send messages to both me and the mailing list.
>
>   Au contraire contraire, please do not.  Abuse of "Reply All" causes
> List Header Cancer!

Couldn't this be solved by the list setting Reply-To: to the list? And
yes, I know it considered bad, but currently many email programs don't
support a 'Reply To List' function. In mutt, I have to tell it about
lists, which of course, just seems lame. In Gmail, Reply To All puts
the list in the CC field.

Hmmm... if a message has multiple Reply-To's, why not have the MUA
reply to all of them? That way a List could add a new Reply-To header
without worry about an existing value. I suppose I need to re-read
some RFCs. :(

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Jeff Macdonald
Ayer, MA