[Mailman-Developers] Reply-To munging considered *carefully*

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Barry Warsaw writes:

 > It's actually easy too.  An MUA need only recognize List-Post and add  
 > a Reply to List button which would strip all the recipients and put  
 > the List-Post value in the To header.  Problem solved.

Wrong problem.  The users Michael is representing want a one-button MUA.

Now, nobody has come close to the one-button MUA yet (vc.el is pretty
close, but unfortunately it's not an MUA), but the fact is that a
*very* large proportion (not to be identified with the value "95%+",
lest we rock Mark's coffin) of users get along perfectly well with
only one reply button *as long as all their lists munge Reply-To*.
See also Russ Nelson' pithy blog: http://russnelson.com/rt.html.

My first response to that fact is "fuck 'em if they can't take a joke,
'cause the joke is their MUA".[1]  However, as my mother always told me,
you catch more bears with honey than with axle grease (or something
like that), and thus the draft RFC.

Footnotes: 
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