Errors-to: owner-drums@CS.UTK.EDU
Message-Id: <199508252207.SAA26988@CS.UTK.EDU>
To: drums@CS.UTK.EDU
From: "Roger Fajman" <RAF@CU.NIH.GOV>
Date:     Fri, 25 Aug 1995  18:05:43 EDT
Subject:  Re:  From the Chair:  the Reply-To issue

> > [ ] reply-to MAY be added by a mailing list to encourage readers to
> >     reply to the list and/or the orignal author.
>
> I don't like mailing lists that do that, but I think that they are
> allowed to do so (assuming that they have the original sender's
> permission), modulo concerns that munging the "reply-to" creates a new
> message that really should have a new "message-id".

How is the mailing list supposed to obtain the sender's permission?
This is something that, when allowed, is usually determined by the list
owner.  You could say that by sending to such a list, the sender gives
their permission, but that doesn't clarify anything.

I wouldn't object to a per-subscriber option that allowed overriding
the default setting for Reply-to for the list.  But design of mailing
list servers is off topic for this group.