Not to bring up a sore spot topic, but I think we need to make a final resolution to this question once and for all. Whomever is handling the web polls, this would be a good one to throw up on the site: Should the tclug-list include the "Reply-To" header for each email? 1) Yes 2) No 3) I don't care, procmail will fix all I recently saw another list "convert" to Reply-To munging because the developers were getting tired of cross-posters and inattentive list users abusing the Cc: and To: headers, thusly receiving multiple copies of the same email. The opinion of the list was that the majority of users were Windows users that did not have the powerful enough email clients to kill duplicates, so they switches to the more draconic behavior of forcing list Reply-To's. Because I do have the ability to use procmail, I've come to the recent conclusion that I no longer care. I can fix most things that list servers break in email, including duplicates and Reply-To's. Given that Mailman is nice enough to move user-defined "Reply-To" fields to "X-Reply-To", it's fairly easy to reverse. This only strengthens my platform in the "Do as you will" category. Here, then, is the reverse for Mailman's Reply-To munging: # reverse listserver's reply-to munging :0 fHW * ^Reply-To:.*$ * ^X-ReplyTo:.*$ | formail -R Reply-To X-List-Reply-To -R X-Reply-To Reply-To And general list reply-to munging reverse: # If To matches Reply-To, munge it as a X-List-Reply-To :0 fHW * ^Reply-To:.*\/[-a-zA-Z0-9.+=/]+@[-a-zA-Z0-9.+=/]+ * $ ^TO($MATCH) | formail -R Reply-To X-List-Reply-To Shall we vote via the web poll, or shall we simply resolve this thread in stating that the policy is and will remain that tclug-list at mn-linux.org is a "Reply-To" munging list. The web poll is a bit more democratic, the solution I would favor. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Get my public key, ICQ#, etc. $(mailx -s 'get info' chewie at wookimus.net) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020304/ec0cdd20/attachment.pgp