From: John R. Moreno (phenix@interpath.com)
Date: Mon Aug 31 1998 - 12:42:43 CDT
Terje Bless <link@tss.no> wrote:
> There has been many arguments to try to rationalize the creation of a
> Mail-Copies-To field:
>
> * To explicitly request CCs of followups.
> * To explicitly request no CCs of followups.
> * To explicitly request no email whatsoever.
> * To explicitly request that CCs of followups
> go to a different address than replies.
>
> My take on this is that the only two "valid" features are "no CCs of
> followups" and "please CC followups" (I use the latter myself). I can
> live with requesting CCs in plain English in the .sig.
-snip-
> To summarize my view: the functionality, while arguably usefull, is not
> usefull enough, or to enough users, to merit a new standard header
> field (there are certainly more then enough of them allready!) and
> there are (or can be devised) alternate means to achieve the same
> goals. This field should *not* be endorsed or included in the standard.
I disagree - I think it's useful enough to include, the only problem I
see with it is the number of newsreaders that don't support it.
Also - as to requesting it for a different address, if it was supported
by services like dejanews I think you'd see a lot of it.
-- John Moreno