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From: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
To: aidan@highrise.ca
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Annoying Reply-To
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:47:29 -0400 (EDT)
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

> But now, if the list munged my reply-to, how would you get back to me?

Why'd you have to interrupt a perfectly good, unwinnable idealogical 
argument with a technical question?  While there is only one reply-to 
allowed for a message, you can put multiple addresses in there.  It is not 
necessarily the case that a list that munges the header must be lossy 
(although majordomo isn't a good example here[1]).  As most incoming list 
messages around only have a from, not a reply-to, you can usefully add 
reply-to for regular messages to redirect them to the list (the goal 
people who are pro list-based reply to want) and append the list address 
to any existing reply-to for the occasional odd message that specifies it 
directly, like yours I'm replying to.

As for an actual implementation of good behavior here, see the end of 
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node11.html for one 
example of list software that supports adding a reply-to without stripping 
any already there off in the process.



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