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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change in rmail-reply
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:36:06 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ozidq89.fsf@xemacs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1LSXwI-0001L6-7L@fencepost.gnu.org>

Richard M Stallman writes:

 > The RFC is clear, but it seems to be clearly wrong.  If John Doe sends
 > a message to you, and you resend it to me, and I do "reply to all", it
 > seems clear that my reply should by default go to [you]

If the resender wishes to indicate interest in the conversation, they
can do this in a number of ways, including adding themselves as a CC,
specifying a Reply-To header, or forwarding the message (ie,
encapsulating the original text in a new message with themselves in
the From header).

 > and to all the other people you resent it to -- as well as to the
 > sender and recipients of the original message.
 > 
 > Can anyone present an argument in support of what the RFC says?

In my experience the most frequent users of Resent-* headers are not
human agents, but daemons.  I see no good to come of automatically
adding their addresses to the reply-to list.






  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-29 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-26 16:30 Change in rmail-reply Richard M Stallman
2009-01-26 17:39 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-27  6:10   ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-27  6:44     ` Don Armstrong
2009-01-27 18:18       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-27 22:58       ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-27 23:22         ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-01-29 14:32           ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-29 15:08             ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-29 16:36             ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2009-01-30  7:25               ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-30  8:04                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-01-30 23:05                   ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-31  0:50                     ` Chetan Pandya
2009-01-31  1:01                       ` Chetan Pandya
2009-01-31  3:16                         ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-31  3:53                           ` Chetan Pandya
2009-01-31  6:32                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-01-31  9:52                               ` Chetan Pandya
2009-02-01  6:30                               ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-31  3:18                     ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-31  3:31                     ` Jason Rumney
2009-02-01  6:30                       ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-31  4:57                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-01-27 23:35         ` Don Armstrong

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