In article iietdr$2sm$1@dough.gmane.org, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
River Tarnell wrote:
What do you think it should be set to? Gmane retains the original Reply-To header from the mail (which is set to the list address by Mailman), but this means that anyone who replies to a Usenet article by email will actually end up replying to the mailing list.
I don't understand the problem. It doesn't matter if the MUA sends the email to the list or to the news server (mine seems to prefer the news server even in gmane), as they both arrive at the same place.
Yes, that's exactly the problem.
Unlike email, when responding to a post on Usenet you have two options: "Followup" and "Reply". Following up posts a reply to the group, while replying sends a (private) reply, by email, to the author of the post (or to the address in the reply-to header, if one is present).
If I left Mailman's reply-to header in place, then trying to send a private reply by email would actually send the post back to the group, unless the user manually edited the To: address. Not only would this be confusing (because it's not how Usenet normally works), it's also pointless, because if someone wants to reply to the group, they will just follow up instead of replying.
- river.