From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 05:03:11 CDT
In <20020709202224.B854@roxel.ms.sub.org> Dirk Nimmich <nimmich@muenster.de> writes:
>Kent Landfield wrote:
>> Lets take this off line... The situation is this... What you are
>> talking about is having all messages generated with a
>>
>> Reply-To: usenet-format@landfield.com
>No. We are talking about having no change at all to the Reply-To
>header because it destroys any contents the author wished to be
>set.
Yes, but an intelligent agent could arrange only to set the Reply-To to
the list if the author had not provided one already.
>Right. That's why modern mail readers have functions to distinguish
>between answers to the author only (reply), to the list only (list
>reply), and to both (group reply).
I have not yet seen a mail reader that is aware of whether or not a
message came from a mailing list. How does it tell?
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