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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

| You can use `message-default-headers', but why on Earth do you want to
| add a Reply-to header?  Why not just make the From header say the
| right thing in the first place?

The "right thing"!  How do you define it?

I once did exactly that, manage to get a lie out of the `From:' and spare
the usage of `Reply-To:'.  I later reverted to the decision that telling
lies is not the right thing to do.  In particular, I sometimes needed
to sort out from where a message was *really* coming from.  It's better
when headers are plain dependable.  `Reply-To:' is a good invention,
with a purpose.  Just use it when it is proper to use it.

More it goes, more I believe one should not make stunts to help others
about broken software.  If each one was doing what s/he should do,
things would improve much faster.  It is important that the sufferings
be endured by those running bad software, and not imposed to everybody
by those wanting to be overly helping.  Especially in the area of emailing.

P.S. - Consider this.  Is there anything more irritating in life that a
friend who *wants* to help you? :-)

-- 
François Pinard         ``Vivement GNU!''        pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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