Justin Gombos wrote:
There is one point that is missing from that page. It would be nice
if Rosenthal's article also documented the purpose of the
mail-followup-to header, which is the appropriate field to specify
where *public* replies should go.
Mail-Followup-To: was a Bernsteinism that postdates most of Chip's work
on those pages. Perhaps he hasn't updated them for it.
I believe Outlook is the primary driver behind reply-to
munging mailing lists like Yahoo Groups.
No, the fight over that goes back long before Windows clients were on
the net. Yahoo Groups' list settings give the options of leaving
Reply-To: alone or three ways to clobber it: to the submission address,
to the -owner address (suitable for announce-only lists), or to the
-unsubscribe address. Tyro listowners fall for the "encourages discus-
sion" fallacy and tend to point it to the submission address; then sub-
scribers who cut their teeth on lists run by inexperienced managers get
the idea that that's standard operating procedure. It really has
nothing to do with Outlook or Outlook Express, which have reply-to-all
functions.
I speak from experience here. Chip admits that he once subscribed to
the same fallacy. I belonged to a list he ran -- on which he clobbered
Reply-To: -- and was among those who objected to the configuration. I
was still on that list when he saw the light and changed that setting.
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