On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 05:05, Shawn McMahon wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:16:23AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov said: > > > > > > 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 what if you want the private replies to go somewhere other > than your "From" address? Then, in addition to sending the mail to the list, it sends the mail to the address specified in your Reply-To. > > 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> > > Or, since there's an existing header in Usenet called "Followup-To", > and we're trying to provide that same functionality in mailing lists, > how about we call it "Mail-Followup-To"? No sense reinventing the wheel > any more than necessary, right? Because, in the doco at http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html it says that Mail-Followup-To causes _group_replies_ to be sent to the given address. In other words, it's identical to Reply-To. That's not quite the same thing. Alex. -- 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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