Reply-To (was Re: invalid command name on some downloads)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 13, 2007, at 16:51, William Gallafent wrote:

> On Thursday 13 December 2007 22:14:15 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> What I want is for people to pay attention to what addresses
>> they're replying to, and to reply to the list when
>> appropriate to keep the discussion there.
>
> One good way to "suggest" that people replying to your message
> should reply to the list rather than to the sender's address is
> to set the Reply-To yourself, as I have done for this message.
>
> The point is, it must be up to _me_ (the originator of the
> message) what is in the Reply-To field, _not_ the list
> administrator ... so the list config is fine as it is, and
> individual users can use headers in the normal way to suggest
> to people replying to the message where the reply should go :)

I don't feel it should be my responsibility to know in advance  
whether any user reading my message will want to reply to me  
privately or to the list publicly. Only the author of that message  
can make the decision.