On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 08:47 -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> There's also the Mail-followup-to "standard".
It's not a standard, and is unlikely to ever become a standard.
It was proposed as a standard but as far as I can tell, died due to lack
of consensus.
An alternative (the list-* headers inserted by mailman) was proposed,
accepted, and is now a standard.
> I haven't used it
> much, but here's how I think it works: The person initiating the
> discussion inserts a special header line, called
> Mail-followup-to, when they compose/send their message. When
> repliers click reply or reply-all (assuming their mail client
> adheres to the standard?), rather than do the default, the mail
> client will put on the To line what you (the original poster)
> specified in the special header line.
Accidents happen when a list reflector sets headers intended to cause a
mail user agent's "reply" command to reply to other than the originator
of the message.
People hit "reply" to respond to just the sender, insert content not
intended for broad distribution, and then hit "send" before noticing th
"to" was not as expected.
- Bill
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