Re: New list Serve Approach

["Mario M. Butter" <mbutter@tower.clark.net>]

Actually, per rfc822, if a mailer directs a reply to the `From' when there's
a `Reply-To' address (without the user requesting it), it's broken. The
`Reply-To' header is supposed to *override* the `From' header.

Mario

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On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, many waters cannot quench love wrote:

> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 12:11:36 -0400 (EDT)
> From: many waters cannot quench love <lisa@technomancer.com>
> Reply-To: atlantia@csc.ncsu.edu
> To: atlantia@csc.ncsu.edu
> Subject: Re: New list Serve Approach
> 
> 
> unto the merry rose, from melys - greetings!
> 
> i have to chime in on the side of the folks who find the new format MUCH
> easier to cope with, simply because it adds the active option of choosing
> whether to direct a reply to the individual or to the list.  i think greg
> is right, tho - no matter how the list is configured, SOMEONE is going
> to be inconvenienced.  mailers operate so differently (some automatically
> respond to the from, others to the reply-to, others to both, others give a
> choice) that the only thing we can really do is try to find out which
> configuration is the most convenient for the largest number of people.
> 
> more people have replied in praise of the new config than in protest. 
> from what i know of mailers and their configurations (and i've had
> considerable experience, having been tech support for an isp) this setup
> will accomodate most of the mailers in common use.  talia, would you like
> to tell me what kind of mailer you're using and how your config is set up? 
> you can email me at lisa@trinet.com if you're interested; it may be that
> we can tweak your mailer to understand the new config a little better -
> bring the mountain to mahomet, so to speak. 
> 
> 						in service,
> 
> 							melys
> 
> lisa@technomancer.com		lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'intrate!
> 
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