On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:13:32 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
[..snip..]
> IMHO, yes. I can play a LOT of fun games with you with reply-tos. Since
> most people don't display the reply-to in the header information (most clients
> don't by default, people normally stick with defaults) someone could put a
> reply-to in there and the person reply without knowing there is a reply-to
> and, thus, not knowing there was a choice to be made.
Well, it's not all the time that the user will know the significance
of either address or why the addresses differ. The only situation I can
think of (do you know any other) where the recipient may know what the
difference or significance is behind the sender and reply:to addresses
differing is with mailing list mail. What I mean when I say significance
is, does the recipient *know* if it's OK to reply to the sender address?
The sender may have deliberately changed the reply:to address to prevent
the message from being replied to using the sender address. You may
therefore annoy the sender by using the sender address.
I would therefore think that it is not an assumption being made, but
rather the right thing being done. By default, the reply:to address should
be used for replies and if you think about it, most of the time this is
the address that you'll indeed use. Why have a popup messages each time
then? Use CTRL+F4, because if you happen to *really know* that it's OK to
reply to the sender address without annoying the sender, then you'll also
know that it's different from the reply:to address and therefore know
exactly when you'll need to reply to the sender. :)
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