Dragaera

Straw Poll about "Reply-to" (was: Damiano's Lute)

Fri Nov 29 19:37:37 PST 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Dyer-Bennet [mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net] 
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 1:47 PM
> To: dragaera at dragaera.info
> Subject: Re: Straw Poll about "Reply-to" (was: Damiano's Lute)
> 
> 
> Tucker <jazzfish at softhome.net> writes:
> 
> > I'm a fan, but Eudora allows me to "Reply to all" and delete the 
> > sender's address so that it goes to the list. I've not seen a 
> > "Reply-to-list" list where "Reply to all" will catch both 
> the sender 
> > and the list addresses.
> > 
> > (Of course, having said that, I nearly sent this off-list.)
> 
> It's been suggested that mail clients implement "reply to 
> sender" as yet another workaround.  However, the easiest 
> solution is simply to implement the RFC defining message 
> headers giving posting, subscribe, and unsubscribe addresses. 
>  I know Pegasus mail imlements that one, for example.  Then 
> you can click on a button to do the precise thing you want.

Hmm.  This appears to answer a question that I asked Rick (which makes
me wish I had seen it earlier, but somehow I missed it...probably too
busy harassing Rick. :) ).  So there is a RFC that defines message
header (hmm...I'm blocking on the term that belongs here) data that
provides the information needed for a mail client to "discriminate"
between the real sender and the list-processor?