Re: Mailing list changes

From: Segher Boessenkool <*segher_at_kernel.crashing.org*> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:53:29 -0500 Message-ID: <20180328175329.GQ23207@gate.crashing.org> · segher_at_kernel.crashing.org

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 09:48:03AM +0100, smf wrote:
> and if you're crazy to suggest that people should be allowed to post to 
> a mailing list and have a different reply to address than the one they 
> subscribed to the mailing list, that is absurd.
> 
> You sign up to a mailing list with an email address and usually only 
> that email address is allowed to post to the mailing list.
> 
> Mailing lists should reject any emails that have a reply to set, because 
> replies will usually come through the mailing list & if you're not 
> monitoring that email account then you're broken.

Asymmetric mail setups used to be common, where the sender address is
not the preferred address to receive mail at.

Segher