Since this thread is still going, I'll put my 2p in and request we keep
to the current behaviour. The reply-to header is there to allow the
message sender to redirect replies to any specified address. By
changing it you are violating the express wishes of the sender. For
instance they might want to use it to copy somebody else into the
discussion replies.
On Aug 26, 2004, at 21:47, Thomas Harold wrote:
> David Budworth wrote:
>
>> I think the reason for this is most likely due to those highly
>> annoying vacation auto-responders.
>> They generally (if not always) send a message back to whatever is in
>> the Reply To header.
>> The way it's set up now, the vacation message will only go to the
>> sender of the message and NOT the entire mailing list.
>> It's kind of annoying when you forget to 'reply all', but no where
>> near as bad as getting a ton of vacation messages every time someone
>> sends a message to the list. Not to mention that the list server may
>> go in to an infinite mail loop with a badly behaved / formed
>> auto-responders.
>
> People whose mailers generate "out of office" replies to a mailing
> list should be automatically unsubscribed. (That's the way a lot of
> mailing lists handle that issue.)
>
> Still, I hadn't thought about the "out of office" auto-responses as
> being a reason for not using Reply-To. (I'd still prefer to see a
> Reply-To header on the mailing list. As an occasional poster, not a
> regular, I often forget to check and make the incorrect assumption
> that the message will go to the list address.)
>
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