In article <iietdr$2sm$1(a)dough.gmane.org>rg>,
Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
River Tarnell wrote:
What do you think it should be set to? Gmane
retains the original
Reply-To header from the mail (which is set to the list address by
Mailman), but this means that anyone who replies to a Usenet article by
email will actually end up replying to the mailing list.
I don't understand the
problem. It doesn't matter if the MUA sends the
email to the list or to the news server (mine seems to prefer the news
server even in gmane), as they both arrive at the same place.
Yes, that's exactly the problem.
Unlike email, when responding to a post on Usenet you have two options:
"Followup" and "Reply". Following up posts a reply to the group,
while
replying sends a (private) reply, by email, to the author of the post
(or to the address in the reply-to header, if one is present).
If I left Mailman's reply-to header in place, then trying to send a
private reply by email would actually send the post back to the group,
unless the user manually edited the To: address. Not only would this be
confusing (because it's not how Usenet normally works), it's also
pointless, because if someone wants to reply to the group, they will
just follow up instead of replying.
- river.