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

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Fri Nov 29 20:51:18 PST 2002

"Davis, Iain E." <feaelin at kemenel.org> writes:

> > 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?

Okay, here it is: RFC 2369.
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