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[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 14 August 2006 23:08, ken wrote:
> William Gallafent wrote:
> > On Monday 14 August 2006 09:48, ken wrote:
> >> So then where in rfc 2822 is the use Reply-To in email
> >> distribution lists addressed?
> >
> > Note that RFC2822 applies to all email, whether it is sent
> > to a list server or not.
> >
> > ===
> > Section 3.6.2. Originator fields:
> >
> > When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it indicates the
> > mailbox(es) to which the author of the message suggests that
> > replies be sent.
> > ===
>
> I suspected (was afraid) that this particular sentence was the heart of
> the storm.  Taken out of context, it does sound definitive.
>
> > It is up to the _author_ of the message to decide what goes
> > in the Reply-To header. Systems which subsequently process
> > the email, after it has been sent, are not the author, and
> > as such are not entitled to decide what should go in the
> > Reply-To field.
> >
> > If the author wishes to put the list address in the Reply-To
> > field (as I have here), that's fine.
>
> Yeah, I've had to explain the same thing to several irate people who
> write back to me, asking "WHY ARE YOU WRITING TO ME?????"  Yet another
> benefit of the current configuration.  :)

No, I've seen comments like that about list mail. Some people just don't 
understand very much about email.

Incidentally, RFC2822 is a "Proposed Standard", one of the first stages of the 
RFC standards track. It's a long way away from becoming a standard, so 
whether it's definitive or not is uninteresting until it makes it all the way 
up to a real RFC standard