Re: [Gmod-ajax] reply-to address mangling

[Hilmar L. <hl...@gm...>]

Just FYI, here's one of the nicer written explanations as for why it  
is a bad practice (not just among GMOD lists):

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

(Obviously, it is still easy to reply to the list. Just hit reply to  
all, or what your email reader calls it.)

Thanks for making the change, appreciate it.

	-hilmar

On Jan 30, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Andrew Uzilov wrote:

> Hi Hilmar...
>
> On 1/27/07, Hilmar Lapp <hl...@gm...> wrote:
>> BTW I notice that the Reply-To address mangling is enabled for this
>> list. Aside from this being considered bad practice and therefore
>> inconsistent with most other mailing lists, it is also inconsistent
>> with the other GMOD lists (or those I've been on).
>>
>> Was this a mistake or intentional?
>>
>>         -hilmar
>
> A while back, I polled the list about the reply-to address mangling
> issue, and no one had a preference, so I went with my own personal
> preference: replacing the "reply-to" field with the list address.
>
> But since you say this is bad practice among the GMOD lists, I have
> now disabled that.  So everyone, be cautious: replies will now go to
> SENDER, not the list!
>
> If anyone feels strongly about this, please let me know.
>
>
> Andrew
>
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