imaging DC600A QIC tapes

Pete Turnbull pete at dunnington.u-net.com
Thu Mar 3 07:09:21 CST 2005


On Mar 2 2005, 22:50, der Mouse wrote:

> In passing, on the "whom to reply to" thread, this message came in
with
> a header
>
> > Reply-To: julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk,
> >         "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> > 	<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
> I noticed this when I tried to reply and saw both addresses in the
To:;
> upon checking, I found that Reply-To:.
>
> How it got that way, of course, is a different question.

Probably because Jules' mailer is inserting an unecessary "Reply-to:"
header (pointless, since it's supposed to be used only when you want
replies to go to somewhere other than the "From:"), and then mailman is
applying the principle of "least modification" and *appending* the
classiccmp address, rather than replacing the one Jules' mailer put in.

I've noticed this with posts from one or two other listmembers.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York


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