From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 05:59:37 CDT
In <20000929171423.A30855@main.templetons.com> Brad Templeton <brad@templetons.com> writes:
>On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:08:45PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>>
>> It's only useful if it also contains information about where the message
>> was posted. If it does, and it was also posted to some newsgroup I read,
>> I'll have my mail software automatically delete such messages without
>> showing them to me.
>Not really that useful a feature, because they would only have this
>magic label if they were new conforming software, and new conforming
>software should not be sending you any e-mail unless you asked for it
>(which you certainly would not!)
Eh? But what if the user DID ask for it? Or expressed no preference by not
including MCT at all? Or the user sent it manually regadlesss? In those
cases, Posted-And-Mailed gives a useful clue.
>A better system is to include the "Newsgroups" header in the mail, which
>not only reveals it is a copy of a USENET message, but also from which
>groups. And of course an in-reply-to header to boot.
Yes, that is a useful thing to do AS WELL.
Will Russ please read what we have had in the Newsgroups header for 9
months or more now. It says explicitly how a Newsgroups header in mail is
to be interpreted (and likely renders some ancient rn practice
non-compliant - I can live with that). We can, I suppose, go back and
review what we have already written in the Newsgroups header, but for now
what it says there stands.
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