[TriLUG] Reply-To munging

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> 
> Most?  Hmmm... I'm on at least 7 mailing lists right now
> (not a high number, but it's been more in the past...)
> and only this one and the Mandrake Cooker list have reply-to
> munging.  One of those lists being a list I have run since
> August of 1994 that has a subscriber base of over 500.
> I contend that the vast majority of lists do not do reply-to munging.
> If you can show proof I'm wrong, please do.

If not most, then many.  I'm on at least a dozen lists, and
only three of them don't add a reply-to field.

> The main reason I put forward for not having reply-to munging
> is that of "The Principle of Minimal Bandwidth" (which btw, is
> one put forward for reply-to munging in someone's reply at
> http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml).
> If you don't do reply-to munging, then the person has to make
> a conscious choice to use up people's bandwidth by sending e-mail
> to the list.