Re: mailing list :: could use a reply-to tag

On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 12:52, Lloyd D Budd wrote:
> I notice that the mail headers are not sending a reply-to dev@sub . This is
> a common convention. Could this be done?

> PS in the archive I could not find that this has been presented previously.

In fact, it's been brought up lots of times. It's good that you checked
the archives, and it's not your fault that Tigris's list archiving
sucks. But if a mailing list has a several-year history, you can safely
assume that someone has brought up the reply-to issue. (As well as the
"[listname]" in subject issue.)

We don't set reply-to because most of us don't agree with doing that for
mailing lists. See http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html for a
list of reasons. Those reasons don't add up to an absolutely compelling
argument, but most of us agree with enough of them that setting reply-to
wouldn't make sense.

In my mind, setting reply-to might make sense when many of your
subscribers aren't very computer-savvy and can't be trusted to pick a
wide versus narrow reply to a message. But that class of people isn't
generally interested in nascent open source version control projects.

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Received on Thu Nov 21 19:06:48 2002