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Re: Why no reply-to header?

Subject: Re: Why no reply-to header?
From: "Micah J. Cowan"
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:18:18 -0700
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 01:59:27AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 14:40 -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> > Having said that, I nonetheless agree that having the list manager
> > program add Mail-Followup-To (and, probably, more standard-compliant
> > List-Post) headers is the best way to deal with the issue. Reply-To's
> > are explicitly meant to be set by the /author/ of a message, and thus
> > shouldn't be set by list managers.
> > 
> This would be a direct violation of the specification for
> Mail-Followup-To:
> 
>       Should my mailing list manager set up Mail-Followup-To?
> 
>       No. This would prevent non-subscribers from receiving copies of
>       messages. It would fragment cross-posted discussions, sending
>       some followups to your list alone while other followups are sent
>       to both lists. You should leave Mail-Followup-To control in the
>       hands of the original author.

Ah. So it would. :/

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