On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 22:18:28 -0800, Januk Aggarwal wrote:
>> Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> We've gone over this, Allie. At first glance that is going to the right
>> place because of TB!'s broken behavior, configurable or not.
> Ok, but why would you *intentionally* put the wrong reply-to in your
> headers? It is not required that you fill it in, the only time I use
> the reply-to field is if there is a specific reason why I don't want
> mail coming to one particular address.
The wrong reply:to could end up in the message headers if you send the
message from a folder with an unintended reply:to address. The second
thing is that when the recipient fleetingly glances at this reply:to
address in TB!'s default format, they may not notice the error since the
name of the intended recipient is there. For example:
Januk Aggarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
However, if the argued for popup query is implemented, the unknowing
recipient is alerted of a disparity between the two addresses and asked
what to do. The default choice is to send to the Reply:to address which is
what the recipient chooses if he doesn't know either address, or if the
recipient knows both addresses but still wishes to use the Reply:to
address. At least he gets alerted to whether or not a choice needs to be
made.
It's this very issue that has me displaying the Reply:to header for
all incoming messages that I read. It's however only on mailing lists that
I may wish to reply to the sender instead of the reply:to address. I can't
remember ever having to correct the reply:to address for private mail
because the person sent the message with an unintended reply:to address. I
therefore am personally against the popup dialog but that's just MHO. :)
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