Re: Mailinglist "Reply-To" field

Mr. Andrei, The article presented in my previous post is an excellent way to realize the main arguments in question. Realistically if someone on the list would actually want to see the list's address in the reply-to header, they will have to defeat the generally accepted points presented in the http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html article. My previous email is not meant to endorse or condemn the practice of reply-to header munging, I am just trying to inform the original poster what he is up against. This was argued some months ago on the php3 mailing list, the argument was defeated by the poster reading the mentioned article. I suppose if you just want to complain, then don't take the article seriously, but if you want to actually change something, write up some counter points against the article. I would guarantee statements like: > This is an old, over-estimated paranoid-mode recommendation. It really isn't > realistic at all. > "Reply-To:" set to the list's address is a good thing. Life is much simpler > with it for many users. are a waste of time. You are assuming that life is much simpler for many users. I personally like the freedom of setting a different reply-to header, I know how to use Outlook Express, and I have no problems setting up effective filters. Robert V. Zwink http://zwink.levitate.org "If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film." - Andy Warhol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Florin Andrei" <fandrei@rds.ro> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 6:04 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Mailinglist "Reply-To" field > "Robert V. Zwink" wrote: > > > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > This is an old, over-estimated paranoid-mode recommandation. It really isn't > realistic at all. > "Reply-To:" set to the list's address is a good thing. Life is much simpler > with it for many users. > > -- > Florin Andrei > mailto:florin@linuxstart.com > http://members.linuxstart.com/~florin/ > tel: +40-93-261162 > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >