Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> Don't be surprised if there are objections - this is one of those things
> >> like emacs vs vi that stirs up religious debate.
> >>
> >
> > If we change Reply-To:, does it prevent replies to the original author?
> > If so, that seems like a problem, particularly if they are not
> > subscribed to the patches list.
> >
> >
>
> Depends on the MUA. See both sides of the debate here:
> http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/listreplyto.html . We use reply-to for
> the pgfoundry admins list, but that's a closed list. For open lists that
> often accept non-member posts it is much more of a problem, not least
> for the reason you suggest.

Let's add the author and the hackers list to the reply-to.

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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:

> Let's add the author and the hackers list to the reply-to.

I think reply-to is just a single address. It may work in some mailers though.

Regardless the issue is that someone may send a personal message and be
surprised when it's broadcast. You can always resent a message accidentally
sent personally but you can't unsend one that should not have seen wider
distribution.

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