On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 12:53, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:16:23AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 08:48, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > > 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. > > That solution relies upon the person sending the reply being aware of > the original poster's preference so that he can select reply to > sender, reply to list, or reply to all accordingly. Much better to > have a header which indicates the OP's desires in a form which MUAs > can understand so that responders don't have to worry about it. The original poster should not be able to dictate whether or not responses will go to the list. > > 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? > > Substantially identical to MFT. 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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