Re: Mail-Followup-To

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Sat, Mar 22 2008, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Reiner Steib writes:
>
>  > Mail-Followup-To is for mail messages.  See
>  > e.g. <http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html>
>
> With all due respect to Professor Bernstein, his home page is not on
> the standards track, 

I didn't say anything like this.  This page just happens to be one of
the first Google hits.

> and his page on reply-to is not even close to being useful for a
> standard because it doesn't say when to generate those headers, or
> who may generate them.  IIRC, the standards track proposals I've
> seen all generalized it to news, and agree on how to specify it for
> news, but not for mail.  

I don't know if you refer to
draft-ietf-drums-mail-followup-to-00.txt[1].  This document primarily
talk about mail (mailing lists), except for "2.5 Usenet News Client
Action".

,----[ draft-ietf-drums-mail-followup-to-00.txt ]
| Abstract
| 
| This proposal contains a proposed new e-mail header ''Mail-Followup-To'',
| which is intended to be used instead of the ''Reply-To'' header for
| suggesting where replies to the group who participates in a discussion
| should be sent.
`----

> I agree that emacs-devel posters should be encouraged to consider
> using MUAs that respect M-F-T, or adding it to their MUAs.  But this
> is a matter of "courtesy beyond the call of duty", not of standard
> conformance.

Agreed.

Bye, Reiner.

[1] <http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/98dec/I-D/draft-ietf-drums-mail-followup-to-00.txt>
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