[Ffmpeg-devel] reply-to headers and the mailinglist

[François Revol]

> Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:52:51PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Hi
> >> >
> >> > quite a few messages which appear on the list contain reply-to 
> > > > headers to the 
> >> > poster+mailinglist, is this wanted? 
> >> >
> >> > currently the mailman settings are:
> >> > first_strip_reply_to: No
> >> > reply_goes_to_list: list
> >> >
> >> > i could change first_strip_reply_to to yes but that would remove 
> > > > not only 
> >> > reply-to headers which contain only the poster (and then get the 
> > > > list added 
> >> > by mailman) but also reply to headers which originally conatin 
> > > > the 
> >> > poster+list, at least if i understand things correctly
> >> >
> >> > the lists on SF dont have a first_strip_reply_to option ...
> >> > how are other lists configured? 
> >> 
> >> IMHO, the best is not to do any reply-to processing.  See
> >> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html for a discussion on 
> > > the
> >> topic.
> >
> > This is nonsense...without it everyone would reply off-list and 
> > spam
> > us all.
> 
> It seems to work well on all the lists I subscribe to that don't mess
> with reply-to.  Any sane mailer has a command that replies in the
> proper way.

I don't have time to add that command to BeMail and the default one 
replies always offlist with that kind of stuff and it drives me mad.

> Setting relpy-to to the list addrss only makes it difficult to reply
> off-list, if that's what you actually want to do.

But it's not what I usually want to do.

If I want to do that I just "Reply to Sender" which does the correct 
thing.

Any sane mailer should do that :P

Fran?ois.