On 2004-02-10 Yves Goergen <nospam.list@???> wrote:
> The Reply-to header problem:
> I believe there's a more or less simple way to satisfy almost everyone
> subscribed to the list. Why can't just everyone choose with his subscription
> whether he wants the Reply-to header pointed to the list (may this be 'good'
> or not) or not set at all (which is the standard for this list, I believe).
> Someone also proposed this after I began composing this text...
First thing that comes to mind is that MLMs don't support it. And it
can only work with if a separate mail is sent to every recipient
instead of one mail to all of them (or if they are sent in two
batches.) exim-users does not do that.
> CC to others or not?
> How does someone who's not subscribed normally write a mail to the list? The
> first case is he replies to a web-archived posting. If he can do this, then
> why shouldn't he also be able to bookmark the page and revisit it for
> replies? But is it appreciated to reply to a web mail anyway, since the
> mailer won't be able to set those holy References headers correctly...
> Second case is he starts the thread by a new posting to the list. OK, I
> don't currently have a solution for that.
[...]
Third case: $user reads and writes to the list as newsgroup on
news.gmane.org. Perfect solution for the MUA impaired who are not
behind some stupid firewall.
cu andreas
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