Comment 17 for bug 334064

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote : Re: [Bug 334064] Re: Launchpad mailing list Reply-to should reply to list not sender

On May 27, 2010, at 10:06 PM, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:

>In general, this "considered harmful" document misses the most common
>case: replying only to the mailing list. That is quite difficult to do
>without Reply-To.

It's actually quite easy to do without munging Reply-To. If you have a mailer
that supports RFC 2369 - which became a standard in *1998* - then your mailer
has a "reply-to-mailing-list" button that fills the To field of the reply with
the value of the List-Post field of the original message.

For example, Claws does this and it works beautifully. Replies go to the list
and only to the list, and there are no duplicates.

>I'd suggest this get reopened.

I respectfully disagree.

-Barry