Email threading issues

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2011/11/10 10:05 -0800, dalibor.topic at oracle.com:
> On 11/10/11 1:09 AM, Brian Pontarelli wrote:
>> One thing that would be _really nice_ would be to change the listserv
>> settings so that the reply-to is the list rather than the sender.
> 
> A classic on that subject is http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html .
> 
> I prefer no reply-to munging myself, fwiw - it's much easier to forward a
> reply that was sent privately to the list, then to unsend a reply that was 
> meant to be private but got reply-to vacuumed onto a list.

Yep.  When we set up the OpenJDK Mailman back in 2007 we made the
decision not to munge reply-to headers.  It's the safest approach
for those of us who work on both the open and closed sides of the
fence.

- Mark