On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 05:25:37PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Saturday 01 September 2018 at 17:21:39, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 03:27:59PM +0200, J. Fahrner wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > my spam blocking rules don't allow a reply-to address to freemail
> > > addresses. Today I received a message from this list with a gmail.com
> > > replyto address (which was rejected).
> > > I'm wondering why this list allows replyto addresses which contain other
> > > addresses than this list. That makes no sense to me. Replies to list
> > > messages should always go to the list.
> >
> > The reply-to header is to indicate where to send a message to the
> > original author. The author might, for example, be temporarilly
> > away from his usual site and still want to indicate where he
> > normally receives email.
>
> This may have been the case when email was in its infancy, and an email
> address actually pointed at "the machine" used by an individual, but how
> relevant is this these days, when people can access their email accounts from
> multiple devices, many of which are mobile and go with the person when they
> away from "their usual site"?

If I'm away from home and post using my mobile, I still often want the
reply to go to my home site, which is *not* in the cloud.

-- hendrik

>
> > This might be useful, for example, to make a private, off-list reply.
> >
> > The 'list-post' header is to indicate how to reply to the list.
> >
> > Proper email programs distinguish between these and recognise both.
> > Proper mailing-list software don't get in the way.
>
> Agreed.
>
>
> Antony.
>
> --
> Users don't know what they want until they see what they get.

Agreed. Sometimes they don't know even then.