[Haskell-cafe] Reply to

[Daniel Fischer]

Am Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009 11:05:05 schrieb Magnus Therning:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Ashok Gautham
>
> <scriptdevil.haskell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I feel that the haskell mailing lists must have the reply-to field set,
> > so that a person can reply to the list by just clicking reply.
> >
> > I am unsure if I am the only one facing this problem.
>
> This is a contentious issue:
>
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html

May I add
http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html
>
> I personally think mailing-lists shouldn't put themselves in the
> Reply-To, and that easy replying to the list is something that should
> be handled in the mail client (I base my choice of mail client on
> this).

Indeed. I have reply, reply-to-all and reply-to-list one click or one key combination 
away, and as far as I know those features are present in almost all mail clients since 
several years, so ease of replying to list shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand, I do not want messages intended to be private communications to end up 
on the list, which would happen more easily with munged headers.

So, count me in the leave-reply-to-alone camp.

>
> What client are you using?
>
> /M
Cheers,
Daniel