mail headers (Re: Apparently irrational behaviour in sort)

[Bob Proulx]

Eric Blake wrote:
> Also, if you are posting to the list, you can set Reply-to: bug-coreutils
> yourself, at which point most list members are polite enough to honor
> your reply-to (meaning that you will only get one copy of replies to your
> post).

It is very useful to set Mail-Followup-To: to the mailing list.
Modern mailers will respect that setting.  If you want a CC or if you
don't want a CC then either way that header is useful.  Just say
explicitly what you want to have happen.

If the poster is a new name that I don't recognize or if the poster
uses MS-Outlook then when I am the first response to a poster I do
sometimes set Reply-To back to the list to avoid their breakage.  But
I don't usually set that for normal postings.

Bob