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Re: Mailing list headers



On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 08:48, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> On Fre, 2003-01-24 at 15:06, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> 
> > That, in my opinion, is the best way of eliminating the problem of
> > private mails getting sent to the list and vice versa: you let the user
> > decide to reply to the sender or the list, and the mailer knows enough
> > to do both.
> 
> But there are people who like to receive private /and/ public responses
> to list mailings

Fine. Then use your mailer's 'reply to all' command.

> and there are people who only want answers (or
> private, of course, if the matter is not for the list - that's still the
> senders choice). As Reply-To: is broken - it indicates that the From:
> address should not be used at all - how would you convey this
> information to the receiver of a list posting?

In another email, I suggested another header to accomplish this,
explicitly requesting that list replies be CC'd to the sender. Something
like:

	X-CC-On-List-Replies: <user@example.com>

How's that sound?

Alex.

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