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Paul Oldham paul at the-hug.org
Sun Aug 5 04:47:55 EDT 2012


On 03/08/12 18:38, Derek J. Balling wrote:

> There's simply two schools of thought when it comes to mailing lists.
>
> 1.) Reply-To header should be included, set to the mailing list address
> 2.) No Reply-To header, mail is sent to the original sender
>
> mailman defaults, I believe, to the latter. You can set it to do the
> former, but it's a manual operation.[...]
>
> But this is really a matter of "IT religious debate" that there is no
> "right" answer to.

Quite so. The only "right" answer is the list owner's choice. David 
believes it's the latter so his lists have it set thus. I believe it's 
the former so on all the lists we host it's set thus.

However I wouldn't dream of asking David to change it here (even though 
he's wrong ;-)).
-- 
Paul



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