oooohhhhh... bitten once again by an evil "reply-to"-setting mailing list

oooohhhhh... bitten once again by an evil "reply-to"-setting mailing list

[Randal Schwartz]

OK, what can I do about those lame mailing lists (about a fourth of
them, in my experience) that add "reply-to: the-list@where.ever", so
that both the "r" and the "f" buttons do EXACTLY the SAME THING?

Is there something I can set in the group-params that says "ignore
reply-to"?

Of course, I've tried to convince these folks time and time again that
this means that an *individual* cannot add a "reply-to" to their own
message and have it be used. :(

But they claim "hey, it makes it easier for people to keep the
conversations on the list instead of amongst the individuals".  <Sigh>
The average IQ of the net is dropping rapidly.

At least I didn't say something very embarassing this time.  Last time
it was much worse, and I raised more hell over it.  Still to no avail.
(Funny, that group said that nearly everyone that signs on and gets
bit then complains... I think they feel it is a rite of passage. :)

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Re: oooohhhhh... bitten once again by an evil "reply-to"-setting mailing list

[Kai Grossjohann]

>>>>> Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:

  > OK, what can I do about those lame mailing lists (about a fourth
  > of them, in my experience) that add "reply-to:
  > the-list@where.ever", so that both the "r" and the "f" buttons do
  > EXACTLY the SAME THING?

There's a `broken reply-to' group parameter.  Type G c on the group.

kai
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Re: oooohhhhh... bitten once again by an evil "reply-to"-setting mailing list

[Bud Rogers]

Edit Group Properties for the offending lists.  I stumbled onto this while
wandering around in the gnus info files.

`broken-reply-to'
     Elements like `(broken-reply-to . t)' signals that `Reply-To'
     headers in this group are to be ignored.  This can be useful if
     you're reading a mailing list group where the listserv has inserted
     `Reply-To' headers that point back to the listserv itself.  This is
     broken behavior.  So there!

-- 

Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net> 
  formerly <budr@tanet.net>

Re: oooohhhhh... bitten once again by an evil "reply-to"-setting mailing list

[Randal Schwartz]

>>>>> "Randal" == Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:

Randal> Is there something I can set in the group-params that says "ignore
Randal> reply-to"?

Duh.  RTFM.

Thank you for providing that feature *already*!

(Yes, thanks to the half dozen people that sent me messages
saying "set broken-reply-to".)

I can't believe I called the support line before I picked up the
manual.  Shame on me.  I'm turning in my "unix guru card" for 24 hours
now. :)

(Admittedly, part of the reason I posted was to point out how much a
feature like that is needed. :)

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