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Re: survival skills for teenage geeks



On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 16:16, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> You haven't posted any reasons why you think it's poorly thought out or
> a crude hack.

Because it's essentially the same thing as Reply-To; see a previous
email I sent. It's also not properly standardized; see below.

> As to being standard, things don't go from ideas to
> standards overnight; M-F-T is in between.

Great. Why is djb asking for it to be implemented before it's not even
formally defined?

> > Debatably useful to mailers that understand it (i.e., yours), and
> > utterly useless to everything else. If you want to 'indicate exactly'
> > what you 'want to be done with followups' to your message, use Reply-To.
> 
> No, that says how to reply, not how to follow-up. The difference has
> been well known in Usenet news for 20 years I expect.

Then why do most MUAs pay attention to Reply-To even when performing a
followup?

> You could survey how many of Debian's MUAs support it. BTW, I am sure
> that there are many more Mutt users than Evolution (probably orders of
> magnitude more), making you the minority.

And Microsoft Windows supports extensions to Kerberos. Does that make
these extensions any more interoperable?

Alex.

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