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

[François Revol]

> "Fran?ois Revol" <revol at free.fr> writes:
> 
> >> >> 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.
> 
> So bemail isn't sane.  End of story.
> 
> >> 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
> 
> That feature doesn't seem to be as wide-spread as "reply to all" (or
> similar names).  Of course, any really sane mailer (like gnus) can be
> made to do absolutely anything.

I need 2 things to us egnus for mail here...
- fix the configure.ac in XEmacs (they *finally* switched over to 
autocrap 2.5x)
- get it use the sane and native format for mails instead of mbox or 
whatever crap unix use. That's not gonna happen any time soon :p

Fran?ois.