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    Re: REPLYTO field. —Todd Lehman
   (...) Lesser of two evils: It's better for that to happen accidentally than for the reverse to happen accidentally (sending a reply to the whole list when you think you're talking to only one person)! Of course, the ultimate geek thing would be if (...) (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: REPLYTO field. —Todd Lehman
     (...) Another couple of reasons: If the 'Reply-To:' header is set to the list, then the probability goes way up that auto-reply handlers (i.e, "I'm on vacation" notices and so fort) will find their way to the list when they should have gone instead (...) (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
    
         Re: REPLYTO field. —Matthew Miller
     (...) Which seems silly because spam-harvesters can (and probably do) read the reply-to header as well as the from one. (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
    
         Re: REPLYTO field. —Todd Lehman
     (...) I agree. But people still do it (and .NOSPAM. and a zillion other forms). --Todd (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: REPLYTO field. —Matthew Miller
   (...) Speaking of the ultimate geek thing: one of my friends has solved this problem by setting up a procmail filter which discards messages with bodies with identical md5sums.... (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
 

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