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On 10/19/2010 06:00 AM, James Wilde wrote:

On Oct 19, 2010, at 13:50 , Charles Marcus wrote:

On 2010-10-18 6:27 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
Even if the Reply=To were modified, wouldn't the inclusion of the OP on
the messages fall apart as soon as somebody didn't use Reply All?

The purpose of Reply-To header is to manage how replies are handled.
Reply All is not necessary if the Reply-To header is correct and you use
a standards compliant mail client that doesn't ignore it.

Unfortunately, Charles, about 99.3% of the general public, or, say, 87.2% of the people on this 
list don't have such a mail client.  At the moment I'm using Mac Mail, which pulls the sender's 
name if I press Reply, and everybody's name if I press Reply All.  As far as I remember Outlook has 
the same characteristics.  I can't remember what T-Bird did on Linux and I haven't used pine in a 
hundred years.

Where did you get these numbers? Respecting the Reply-To header is a pretty basic feature. Yes, thunderbird, gmail, pine, etc. respects it. Pine actually asks whether you want to use the Reply-To or From address.

I think this is probably because Reply To is not set in most clients, and is filled in on sending 
from the Sender field.

Unless the reply should be addressed to someone other than the sender, the Reply-To shouldn't be set. Mailing list servers often add a Reply-To header, so that discussion is directed to the list.

     ----Jon

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