It was thus said that the Great Jay West once stated:
Oh hell. I sure didn't mean to open up that can of
worms (the every year or
so debate on if replies should be to the list or to the poster). But since
it HAS been brought up....
Background for short-timers: There is a recurring debate every year or so as
to the reply-to headers setting on the list. The way it works now, when the
list sends out list traffic/posts to each of you, it "munges" the reply-to
header so that when you hit "reply" to a list post, the reply goes to the
list. If you want to just reply to the poster directly (off-list), you have
to go through gyrations like hitting forward and typing in the senders email
address.
Taking off my list owner hat... the following is my own personal opinion on
the topic which shall not be dictated upon the rest:
I think that's insane, not to mention that I suspect it violates some RFC's
Nope. Section 4.4.3 of RFC-822 specifically allows munging of the
Reply-To header.
Personally, I fall into the "Reply-To munging okay" camp. Where's what I
wrote about this topic when it reared its head over fourteen years ago:
http://boston.conman.org/2000/02/03
-spc (So the topic itself fits within the 10 year rule 8-P