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Thu, 14 Nov 2013 22:23:46 +0000 |
On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:58:35 -0600
Ryan Schmidt <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Nov 14, 2013, at 15:09, Pablo Rodríguez <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > I think it might be worth to discuss the point you make.
>
> In fact I should have pointed you to this newer article:
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> http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html
>
> which explains why the discussion ended in 2001:
>
>
> > In April of 2001, the IETF issued af new document, RFC 2822, which
> > obsoletes RFC 822. In this new RFC, the author addresses the
> > Reply-To header field in a few places, but the most relevant to
> > this discussion is the following in section 3.6.2 "Originator
> > fields":
> >
> >> When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it indicates the
> >> mailbox(es) to which the author of the message suggests that
> >> replies be sent.
> >
> > Your list software is not "the author of the message", so it must
> > not set or in any way meddle with the Reply-To header field. That
> > field exists for the author and the author alone. If your list
> > munges it, you are violating the standard.
The list server is the *distributor* of the message. A message
intended for persual by, and a possible response from, any of the
current subscribers to a list.
Any mail client software worth it's salt, should recognise the origin
of a list-server distributed message, and correctly deduce the address
to which a response should be sent, namely that of the list-server
itself.
As a matter of protocol and netiquette, any personal responses to a
list distributed message, should contain the words OFF LIST: pre-pended
to the content of the Subject field
Regards,
Chris.