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From: David Hogan dhog@pla...
Subject: imminent release
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 02:01:01 -0500

Steve Kotsopoulos <steve@ecf...> writes:
>Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org> wrote:
>> I hope "the plan 9 guys" will reject anyone who replies to the
>> list rather then the sender.
>
>I hope not. The message from Rob had a 'Reply-To: 9fans@cse...',
>probably inserted by the list software.

Which is a bad thing for the list software to do.  Not adding the
Reply-To is better, because it gives the person replying the choice
of just replying to the author, or doing a group reply which will
go to the list.  Can this be changed, to forestall future debacles?