Marco van de Voort wrote:
I use the Real Mailer [TM] mentioned on that site as example, AND I'm aware of the functionality. Still I make the mistake at least 50% of the time, simply because all other lists do have this done.
But those mistakes can be corrected. The mistakes that can arise from a munged "Reply-To:" cannot.
I also think his "against" arguments are either dubious or coloured, or non-existant in practice.
I'm on maillists that have reply-to's for about a decade now, and never had any problem. (and more important, never heard any complaint about reply-to)
I once had the problem that I had almost sent a _very_ personal reply to the whole list. After that I decided that I would stop posting to any list with that "feature".
We hage another list here where one member cannot receive private email at his "From:" address, so his personal "Reply-To:" header is needed if one wants to reply personally to him.
These are two real-world examples for the arguments in `http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html'.
Peter, who only had to press capital `L' for replying to the list in `mutt' :-)