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Re: Sendmail and resent- headers

1997-04-17 06:42:00
Professional Software Engineering - Lists account writes on 15 April 1997 at 
13:07:45
[...]
window, and while quoted replies show the author's name, it apparently
shows the reply-to address (the list) for the address instead of the
authors address.
[...]
  -I"Reply-To: listname(_at_)domain" \

This is generally a rather bad idea as it *forces* all replies to go
to the list rather than leaving that decision to the end user (a
"Reply" verses "Follow-up").  It can also cause problems with
auto-responders, bounced messages,  and other such things as they will
use the Reply-To: address and send mail to the entire list.

If you can't use a real mailing list package like SmartList, at least
borrow ideas from it.

   Dan
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