Friday, January 21, 2000, 3:18:05 PM, Douglas wrote:
> These are established conventions then?
Yes. Do not munge headers.
> But what TB is doing is making use of non-essential but also
> non-confidential user supplied data. The supposition being that it's there
> to be used.
The assumption is that the reply-to has any bearing with the individual in
the FROM field. This is not always the case and is a bad assumption to make.
First off, mailing lists that set reply to. Combining the list address with
the user's name is bad for many reasons.
Secondly is the case when an individual set a reply-to to another
individual. For example, I send you a reply, tell you I'm not the right
person, CC the right person and set the reply-to to that person. When you
reply-to me it goes to his address with my name.
> In the example given, to my knowledge, Mr. Clinton doesn't provide
> non-essential comment you mentioned in the configuration of his email
> client, and although one of his correspondents may have had reason to add
> such a non-essential comment for reasons of their own; while technically
> feasible, it is unlikely that this was actually done.
You're assuming that reply-to and from have anything to do with each other
in all cases. They do not.
> Once again, I am dealing with this issue in logical terms, but logic
> requires a point of departure and if an established convention exists
> the contrary, I'd like to know more about it. I fail to see the
> breech of net-etiquette in itself.
Combining the name of an individual with the list address is a breech.
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