Re: the most obvious failure in To-NoReply

["D. J. Bernstein" <djb@xxxxxxxx>]

Keith Moore writes:
> you're free to set Reply-To to ietf-822@xxxxxxx

I don't want _replies_ to go to ietf-822@xxxxxxxx I want _followups_
to go to ietf-822@xxxxxxxx

Every popular MUA has separate reply/followup functions; that's what
users want. An increasing number of MUAs support the sender specifying
a followup list (normally with Mail-Followup-To) that doesn't include
the reply list; that's what users want.

Since adopting To-NoReply wouldn't remove the need for Mail-Followup-To,
and since To-NoReply is useless in a Mail-Followup-To world, there's no
reason for anyone to adopt To-NoReply.

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago