Specifying where to follow-up (was: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal)

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald@aei.mpg.de> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:58:05PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> > 
> > [Please only reply to -devel]
> 
> Reply-To?

That's a field defined (in RFC 2822) as specifying where posts
intended individually to the author ("replies") should be sent. It
would not be good to have such replies sent instead to a public
mailing list.

I suspect Raphael instead wants to specify that public follow-up posts
(not individual replies) should go to debian-devel. The
Mail-Followup-To field is often used for this, but is not a standard
nor widely implemented.

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Ben Finney