On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, safemode wrote:
> Reply ALL also results in 2 mails being sent instead of one but of
> course this is usually not a problem since one is going direct and the
> other is going through vger, but still... it's kind of wasteful to
> resources and i dont see any harm in Reply-to being sent in the
> header. Proftpd's mailing list seems to work fine with it. Is your
> position against it just due to client incompatibility?
As I see it, there are two reasons:
1. Historically, vger's turnaround time (for me at
least) was several hours. This makes it rather
hard to hold a coherent discussion.
2. It enables people to distinguish discussions in
which they are involved from the other noise on
the list.
Matthew.
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