Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] the dangers of no reply-to munging

[Jonathan Walther]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:18:00AM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote:
> The only way other way that an end user can make sure that replies can
> be sent back to him is by setting the Reply-To: header. Now if the
> mailinglist throws away this information and happens to use it for it's
> own purposes it is impossible to send a private reply. In other words
> simply discarding the information provided by Reply-To is very much
> harmful.
>
> Does that make _any_ sense?

Most of us work around that by putting our real email address in our
.signature at the bottom of our emails.  Don't tell me Reply-To: munging
breaks that...

Jonathan

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