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Re: Mailing list headers



On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 05:51, Ryan M. Golbeck wrote:
> Alexander Hvostov <alex@aoi.dyndns.org> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Just glancing at the RFC, it doesn't seem to say anything about that
> if the List-Post header is set replies should only go to the list.  So
> whether that tells your mailreader that the mail came from a list is
> really irrelevant, it doesn't tell you where to send replies.

Note the last eight words in my message: when they want to reply to that
list. That gives the user a choice as to whether to reply in private or
to the list. I've explained this sufficiently in other emails; I'm not
going to repeat myself.

Alex.

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