On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 05:34, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Don, 2003-01-23 at 13:47, MJ Ray wrote: > > Johan Zaxmy <johan.zaxmy@ida.his.se> wrote: > > >> Mail-Followup-To header directs your MUA on exactly what to do with list > > >> replies. Shawn has set it so that replies go to the list only; if you > > > How do one get that behaviour in for example Netscape 7.0 ? > > > > You should not. Mail-Followup-To is one man's questionable attempt to > > replace the Reply-To header. It is not standard. No-one whose header is > > ignored has grounds for complaint, really, if they didn't set Reply-To. > > Problem with Reply-To: headers and mailing lists is that *some* mailing > lists modify it. This was one reason that mft was created. IIRC there > were others, in connection with the meaning of Reply-To: being not > specified clearly enough. RFC 2369 specifies the List-Post header, which gives a URI to post to the list (or the special value "NO", meaning posting to the list is not allowed so don't bother). An intelligent mailer will send email to the address specified in this header, if present, when its 'group reply' or 'reply to all' command is invoked. Here you have a standard, well-defined, listserv-managed, specific, and unambiguous way for all mail readers to know that a message was sent via a list, and what to do when they want to reply to that list. Instead of this political nonsense with Reply-To, and djb's incredibly clueless Mail-Followup-To tripe, why can't we just use List-Post? Alex. P.S. No, I don't like djb. At all. His decision to forbid distribution of binaries of his programs has to be one of the stupidest licensing ideas a software engineer ever came up with. His assumption that qmail is secure because no one claimed a fairly insignificant reward to crack it is ludicrous and unfounded. And has anyone ever even _heard_ of djbdns? -- PGP Public Key: http://aoi.dyndns.org/~alex/pgp-public-key -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s:++ a18 C++(++++)>$ UL+++(++++) P--- L+++>++++ E---- W+(+++) N- o-- K+ w--- !O M(+) V-- PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP+(+++) t* 5-- X-- R tv b- DI D+++ G e h! !r y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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