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  1. Bug #334064
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 334064

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Karl Fogel (kfogel) wrote : Re: Launchpad mailing list the replay to should replay to the mailing list not the last sender

This is an old and controversial idea. Personally, I think it's not a good idea to munge Reply-to: it can cause private mails to accidentally be sent to a public list. That is a very bad failure mode!

The two canonical documents on this topic are:

 "Leave Reply-to Alone", by Chip Rosenthal
 http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

and

 "Set Reply-to to list" by Simon Hill
  http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml

IMHO, the way to implement this is as a per-subscriber feature, with the default being to leave Reply-to alone. (http://producingoss.com/en/mailing-lists.html#reply-fantasies)

Closing as "Won't fix", but someone else can re-open if they think it needs more consideration...

Best,
-Karl