Re: [Swftools-common] on the mailing list itself

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 14, 2013, at 15:09, Pablo Rodríguez <address@hidden> wrote:

> I think it might be worth to discuss the point you make.

In fact I should have pointed you to this newer article:

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

which explains why the discussion ended in 2001:


> In April of 2001, the IETF issued af new document, RFC 2822, which obsoletes 
> RFC 822. In this new RFC, the author addresses the Reply-To header field in a 
> few places, but the most relevant to this discussion is the following in 
> section 3.6.2 "Originator fields":
> 
>> When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it indicates the mailbox(es) to which 
>> the author of the message suggests that replies be sent.
> 
> Your list software is not "the author of the message", so it must not set or 
> in any way meddle with the Reply-To header field. That field exists for the 
> author and the author alone. If your list munges it, you are violating the 
> standard.