Simon Josefsson wrote:
Keith Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> writes:
not if the list were on the To or CC line and the recipient did a "reply
to all". (I'm assuming that reply-to: nobody:; would just remove the
From addresses from the reply recipient list, and have no effect on the
addresses obtained from the To and CC fields of the subject message).
The problem is when people want to reply to the author, and press the
"reply author" button. That operation would take the content of From:
as the recipient, but Reply-To would override that value with
nobody:;, and the reply would go to the bit bucket.
Presumably if the author has set Reply-To to an ineffective address,
he explicitly doesn't want personal responses. Somebody who really
wants to override the authors' wishes can of course still send a
message manually. Of course it takes a small amount of effort, but
that is again presumably in accordance with the authors' wishes in
setting up the message to discourage direct responses. So what's
the problem?