A listadmin's plea.....

Kysh debkysh@lapdragon.org
Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:54:34 -0700


On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:40:58PM -0700, Mike Markley wrote:
> Bah... a list that doesn't mangle headers in evil ways is misconfigured? :P

It's not evil! It follows the original intent of the RFCs! Christ almighty, 
I've never understood you people. The email is sent to an address. That
address turns around and re-sends it. Why on earth should the from not be
set to the address that re-sent it? Why should the reply-to field be added?
It's a complete mangling of protocol, and it's really annoying to boot. 

It makes no sense for 'reply' to go to the individual, unless it's an 
announcement-based list, instead of a discussion-based list. 

-Kysh
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