more duplicate posts

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: msokolov at ivan.harhan.org
>
>Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
>
>> This is not your fault.  As you may recall, we had this discussion about
>> half a year ago, and it boils down to people not configuring their e-mail
>> clients properly to obey the reply-to directive in the e-mail headers of
>> the list messages.
>
>No, that is not the problem.  Since I read my mail with full headers using
>a very "raw" MUA that does *nothing* behind my back, I see what actually
>happens is this: most list messages arrive with Reply-To: set to the list,
>but some arrive with Reply-To: listing both the list and the author.
>
>Since the Reply-To: header is tweaked by the mailing list software, I can't
>see how it can behave so inconsistently.  Since I am a hard determinist
>when it comes to computers, the only rational explanation I have is that
>there must be some differences in the headers of messages before they reach
>the list that causes the list software to process them differently.  But
>of course in order to pin the problem down, one must see the messages in
>their original form prior to alteration by the list software, which I cannot
>do as a mere subscriber, only Jay or other list staff can do that.

Hi
 I just sent myself a message. The only thing I see is that
the reply-to field has my email address in it. The list server
must be simply appending the CCTALK address to what is there.
I don't control that part of my mail tool so I annoy Sellam ;)
Dwight

>
>MS
>
>P.S. One thought: when I was designing my own mailing list management software,
>I implemented a feature by which a list can accept posts from non-subscribers
>with moderator approval.  I implemented it so that it set Reply-To: header
>to both the list and the author on those approved outsider posts, on the
>reasoning that the author should see replies but won't see them on the
>list because he is not subscribed.  I don't know anything about the software
>Jay uses for this list, but there is a chance that its authors followed
>reasoning similar to mine and the posts arriving with Reply-To: set to the
>list and the author come from non-subscribers approved by moderators.
>