[OT] Reply-to header (was: More function decorations II)

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org> writes:

> Sorry for the off-topic question, but is there a policy concerning the
> Reply-To: header on gcc mailing lists? It seems that this header
> simply indicates an address to use instead of the one in From: when
> replying, which is independent of whether you reply just to the
> author, or to everyone (adding the addresses in To: and Cc: fields to
> the one in either From: or Reply-To:) as makes sense on a mailing
> list. But then I don't understand the problem with Gaby's message. Or
> are there (broken?) mailers that use Reply-To: as a replacement for
> From+To+Cc?

Yes.  Ideally Gaby should use the Mail-Reply-To header.

http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html

(but I understand that in Gaby's case this may be a Gmail issue.)

Ian