Re: [MiNT] List policies (was: Pine 4.20)

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>]

On 18.11.1999, Michael Schwingen <rincewind@discworld.dascon.de> wrote:

> > Would it be too much to ask for you to configure Majordomo so it
> > auto-inserts a "Reply-To: mint@fishpool.com" on every post, so we
> > don't have to hack out the headers when we don't reply privately?
> 
> NOOOO!
> 
> Reply-To: is for manually setting, *not* for mailing list purposes. If the
> list sets Reply-To:, the 'reply to user' fimction in a MUA will not work
> anymore, but will direct the reply to the list instead of the sender.
[...]
> this is a bad idea, and get a decent MUA instead.

Pine always asks if I wanna reply to From or Reply-To, so who's
got an indecent MUA here?

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