From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@on-the-train.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 05:43:54 CDT
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009271041350.15973-100000@spock.peak.org>,
John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes
> 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.
You can't stop me sending something. It should require an explicit
warning, and should be discouraged, but you can't stop it and MUST NOT
is not the right wording.
>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.
Agreed.
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