List header cancer

[Chip Marshall]

On October 18, 2007, Chris sent me the following:
> What is actually wrong with having the Reply To: as the list, after
> all, that is where the message came from. (not originally, but in
> essence, we all want to send a message to everyone, where is the harm
> in having the reply go to everyone by default), and only when someone
> feels that an individual reply is warranted, should they need to
> change the reply to address?

The argument I usually see is that if the mailing list sofware alters
the Reply-To header, information is lost. If someone see the message and
wants to reply to just the author, they don't know what the author's
original Reply-To was, so they may not be able to actually contact him.

This assumes that the author's From is not a usable address, which I'm
sure happens, but not very often in my experience.

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