From: John Stanley (stanley@peak.org)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 12:51:09 CDT
A followup agent MUST NOT (unless its user explicitly overrides it)
email a copy of the followup article to the author of the original
article if the Mail-Copies-To header contains the "nobody" keyword.
If the user explicitly overrides this provision, the followup agent
MUST/SHOULD/Ought to issue a warning to the user and ask for
confirmation.
No! The poster has specifically stated that email replies are not wanted.
The recipient of the email has the right to control his own mailbox, it is
not the sender's right to override the explicit instructions of the
poster.
The followup agent MUST NOT email .... Period.
Posted-and-Mailed ...
This header, if present, MUST be included in both the posted and
emailed versions of the article.
This header MUST be present in any copy that is both posted and mailed.
It should not be optional.
Jonathan Grobe (grobe@netins.net) comments:
"I went to the Archives to check--and the archives are missing all posts
from September except this one."
See how much fun it is to try to follow this group using the archives?
The problem is the index that gets generated when a new message comes in.
Every so often the right index gets made, but it usually just contains
the last message. I reported this to Kent a long time ago, and even
complained to the list, as I recall.