On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 06:54:40PM -0500, David Phillips wrote:
> Joel Schneider writes:
> > For the record, an opposing point of view:
> 
> Which is entirely wrong, for one simple reason: it destroys useful
> information.  It also makes it much more difficult to reply to the sender of
> a message and not to the list.

Really? What information does it destroy? Most Reply-To munging turns any
previous Reply-To into X-Reply-To preserving the information.

As for making it 'much more difficult', what email client *doesn't* have a
'Reply To Sender' function?

> 
> The basic premise of that essay is that it easier for people with lacking
> MUAs to reply to the list, while not breaking things too much for people
> with good MUAs.  That is not a reasonable trade off for something that
> destroys useful information.  Several good mailers support Mail-Followup-To,
> which is a much more correct solution to the problem.

What information is destroyed? A large majority of replies to messages
on this list go to the list, as opposed to the original author. What is broken
for people with 'good MUAs'?

> -- 
> David Phillips <david at acz.org>
> http://david.acz.org/

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