Is this an issue of posting etiquette?

[John Kaufmann]

At 20:12 +1100 030203, arkenstone wrote:
>I'll have to agree with all of this, specifically what John Kaufmann said.
>It's quite often more difficult to follow a thread on this list, due to the
>whole reply-to header.
>
>As i only joined the list in the last month or so, would anyone be able to
>enlighten me as to why this change was made?

The majordomo that is used to administer the list was not able to 
prevent  "reply-to" loops from dumb autoresponders.  Sometimes people 
would set their mail clients to respond with "I will be out of the 
office until ..." - which would then loop through the list, sometimes 
even with the same mail client responding to its own autoresponse <!> 
- and the whole list would get the whole autoresponding loop.

Wez felt that dropping the "Reply-To:" header would stop those 
conspiracies of dumb mail clients and dumb majordomo - and it has at 
least done that.  Other lists are able to use "Reply-To:" to maintain 
threading without having to yield to dumb autoresponders, but I can't 
fault Wez, who already has a full plate, for not researching the 
differences.
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John