Re: Mail-Copies-To.00

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From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 13:32:23 CDT


Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

>> If the article does not contain a Mail-Copies-To header, it SHOULD be
>> treated as if it contained "Mail-Copies-To: never" unless the poster
>> indicated a different preference via some other means (such as a
>> request in the body of the message for an e-mailed copy).

> Would "the message was posted to a newsgroup where it is socially
> acceptable to post messages without reading the group" count as a
> indication of a different preference?

It would to me.

> Some (non-USENET) newsgroups exists for the purpose of reporting bugs,
> the people reporting the bugs are not obliged to read the group.

Yup. I participate in a whole bunch of those.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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