NNTP client configuration

[Brad Roberts]

On 2/20/2018 7:43 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 19:20:27 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
>> On 2/20/2018 4:26 PM, Manu wrote:
>>> I shouldn't have your email
>>> address in the reply-to header (as Jonathan has noted multiple times).
>> I do that deliberately as a service to those who wish to contact me
>> privately about something I posted, which happens now and then.
> I think that it's also pretty common for the e-mail address of posters to
> end up being visible somewhere for mailing lists - enough so that using an
> e-mail address that you don't want to be public is risky.
>
> Either way, having the poster's e-mail address in the Reply-To header is a
> problem, because that's going to tell the e-mail client to send a reply
> there. So, if the poster's e-mail address is going to be somewhere in the
> headers, it needs to be in a different header (e.g. the From header).
>
> Looking back at e-mails from the mailing list from the last few years, it
> looks like it used to be the case that the From header listed the user's
> name but with the mailing list's address (just like it does now), and the
> Reply-To header just listed the mailing list's address (whereas now, it
> lists the mailing list's e-mail address _and_ the poster's e-mail address).
> So, prior to the last update that Brad did, I don't think that the poster's
> e-mail address was available anywhere in messages from the mailing list.
>
> However, if I look at messages from several years ago, it used to be that
> the From field listed the poster's name and e-mail address (not the mailing
> lists's), and the Reply-To header listed the mailing list's address.
>
> So, if we want to try to hide the poster's e-mail address, the behavior that
> mailman had a few months ago would be best, whereas if we want that
> information to be available, then it's behavior from several years ago would
> be best. Either way, having Reply-To include the poster's e-mail address is
> going to result in a lot of unnecessary e-mails going directly to folks in
> addition to the mailing list.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

We cannot go back to several years ago unless you can convince the world 
to also roll back dmarc.  That travesty of justice really screwed up 
mailing lists in general.  It was designed and implemented fairly 
ignorant of the ways in which lists work.  So that's off the table.

For the moment, we're back to the posters email is nowhere to be found, 
which is bad for some use cases.  There really is no one correct answer 
here.  Reasonable people are going to disagree.