[Asterisk-Users] Reply-To?

[Bruno Hertz]

John Novack <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org> writes:

> Bruno Hertz wrote:
>
>     <>Jean-Michel Hiver <jhiver at ykoz.net> writes:
>     Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
>     Oops, sorry for the list reply :/
>
>             <>Actually, why does the Reply-To point to the Asterisk Users
>             mailing
>             list? This breaks the reply to sender only / reply to all / list
>             reply
>             functionality of my mailer. It's really broken :(
>
>     Some would say your mail client is broken. What you're complaining about is generally called 'reply-to munging', and there's been a long discussion about this. Google reveals more, like these two oppositional opinions
>
>     http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
>     http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml
>
>     Regards, Bruno.
>
>
> And there probably will NEVER ba an agreement on this subject.
> Another list I am on even went so far as to take a poll, and it was split right
> down the middle, half taking the correct position outlined in the first
> article, and half  the second, much less flexible,  position..
>
> The really curious thing on this list is every so often, if I choose to reply,
> the poster AND the list appear, but mostly just the list, as if the poster had
> some control as well.

Well, the reason for the latter apparently is that, in some postings to this list,
there's actually two entries in the reply-to header, the posters mail and the list
address, while in others it's only the list. Why this happens is above me, though,
I thought it should be either/or.

Regards, Bruno.