On 11/27/2010 12:37 PM, Andreas Dick wrote:

hello I am wondering why the reply address is not the dev@list if I write to the list, as I know it from other lists... is this not an admin setting of the mail list admin? this would help a lot to make open discussions. Andreas

wars are waging over this since ages: http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/listreplyto.html

cheers, raoul

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Andreas Dick andudi@gmx.ch wrote:

Thanks for the enlightenment.... ...but since when do RC care about wars? and not about practice??? or exists there practical arguments as well? thanks Andreas

Possibly because the list administrators care about the arguments Raoul just posted? It's a matter of opinion, based on a best practice recommended by the RFCs. You've expressed your disagreement, but does that make it 'right' ?

-Dave

List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/ BT/aba52c80

Interesting debate. To bring this into discussion of RCD, just which of the many list headers does Roundcube support? See http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2369.txt I note that this email uses the List-Id header to identify the list. On gmail's web client, gmail does not detect this and a reply goes to the sender. In thunderbird, I have the option to reply-list, reply-all, or simply reply.

Also, for anyone reading the debate, I would point out that Marc Merlin's assertion: ", RFC 2822, which states "When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it indicates the mailbox(es) to which the author of the message suggests that replies be sent." (notice/author/, and not/list software/)" is no longer correct. Time marches on, and in http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5321.txt we have in section 3.9.2

/When a list constrains its processing to the
very limited set of modifications and actions described here, it is
attempting to emulate an MTA; such lists can be treated as a
continuation in email transit.
There exist mailing lists that perform additional, sometimes
extensive, modifications to a message and its envelope.  Such mailing
lists need to be viewed as full MUAs, which accept a delivery and
post a new message./

As this particular list appends a signature to the content of each message it sends, it could be argued that it is acting as an MUA and posting a new message, and hence is the author of that message.

RFC 5589 provides a good summary of current practices: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5598.txt

Note, this rfc is Informational, so it is not setting any standards.

He fails to account for On 11/30/2010 6:35 AM, Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] wrote:

On 11/27/2010 12:37 PM, Andreas Dick wrote:

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hello I am wondering why the reply address is not the dev@list if I write to the list, as I know it from other lists... is this not an admin setting of the mail list admin? this would help a lot to make open discussions. Andreas

wars are waging over this since ages: http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/listreplyto.html

cheers, raoul

List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/ BT/aba52c80