Re: [PATCH] Lose perl dependency. (fwd)

merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

The proper solution is to *follow* the RFCs,

Do you remember RFC #s by chance? Some details maybe?

and leave the reply-to alone
when
relaying.  If someone wants to reply to the list *and* the person, they can
reply to both the "from (or reply-to)" and "to" addresses, often called a
"wide reply".  If someone wants to reply to just the person, they use the
"reply-to" if it's present, or the "from" if not.  This is *proper* behavior:
it's only some broken mailing lists out there that have caused us to have to
work around it.

The list doesn't modify the headers in question, at least as far as lkml
is concerned, so I assume you mean some other lists that are broken.

Reply-To is for the author to set, list software shouldn't change it.
While it's normal to reply to "From", "Cc" and "To" (at least here),
some people prefer to be omitted when replying to their mail. How could
they do that if not with Reply-To?

Then, if I see lkml and no author's address in Reply-To, how
could I contact him/her privately if not writing to "From" and
ignoring Reply-To?
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Krzysztof Halasa