Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

[Florian Hinzmann <fh@bigfoot.de>]

On 03-Jan-2001 Philip Brown wrote:

>> "Reply-to" is meant to send a message back to the person who wrote the
>> first one, not to someone they wrote the message to.
> 
> reply-to is meant to direct where you should send "replies to".

Reply-To is meant to direct where you should send "replies to"
if you want to send a private mail to the originator of the mail.


> And in the case of the debian mailing lists, you should "reply to" the
> list.

If you want to send to the list you should "reply to" the list only.
If you want to send a mail the the originator of a mail you are 
allowed to do that. And you may need to honour the Reply-To-Header to 
reach him.


  greetings
         Florian



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