Request: make the ML's default return candidate be the ML

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Nov 26 12:10:58 PST 2011


On Nov 26, 2011, at 09:29, Roger Pack wrote:

> I've noticed that the default reply recipient for messages generated
> from the MacPorts Users mailing list is "just" the person that
> actually sent the message.  This causes grief when you hit reply,
> thinking it will go to the ML, but end up just sending a personal
> reply on accident.
> I'm sure this has been discussed before, but is there anything that
> could be done here?  It keeps biting me, every time I come back to the
> mailing list.

Sorry, we're not going to modify the Reply-To, From or other headers the user sets. Doing so is contrary to Internet standards. See:

http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html





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