On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 04:19:57PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > The one big problem with no-ccs rules in this: > > How is the MUA meant to know what addresses it is meant to reply to? > > Please don't just say "the mailing list address", as how is > the MUA going to know which address is the mailing list address? perhaps via the List-Post header defined in RFC 2369 ? GNU Mailman supports these headers but most/all MUAs make no use of them. > Also, some replies should *not* go to the mailing list either, but to > the mailing list via a BTS address, for instance. Consider > debian-policy, where this frequently applies. perhaps the BTS could set Mail-Followup-To ? of course as we all to well know many mailers ignore it. > Also, what about cross posted messages? Why should the reply go to one > mailing list, but not the other? How is the MUA to know that two of > the addresses are required for mailing lists, and should both be used? > Yes, sometimes cross posts are required. this pretty much has to be left to the user to figure out. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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