David Maxwell writes: >The third reason is that there is no standard way for users to >express their preference. Actually, technically, there is -- the list software could ignore subscribers specified in the header as recipients if they had so requested. Or users can set reply-to to the list, of course. >it best to settle on a single universal practice. Deleting the >occassional duplicate mail isn't tough - reading every list message >to see if someone asked you a question, is. I generally prefer to get private CCs myself. >(One suggested, but not widely implemented way to express your >preference is the Mail-Followup-To: header. >http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html ) Hadn't realized that was a DJB, but did know about it (and, in fact, the custom extensions on my mailer do implement something resembling this). An alternative is the Mailing-List: stuff. -- Joshua Kronengold (mneme at io.com) "I've been teaching |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) --^--him...to live, to breathe, to walk, to sample the /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\joy on each road, and the sorrow at each turning. |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ /-\\\I'm sorry if I kept him out too late"--Vlad Taltos '---''(_/--' (_/-'