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Richard Coleman writes:
> > Please don't implement support for Mail-Reply-To and Mail-Followup-To
> > in nmh.  Not only are they nonstandard, they're a poor fix for the 
> > problem.
> 
> Well, everything is nonstandard until it becomes standard.

Keith is the IETF applications area director, and used to chair the
DRUMS working group. I strongly agree with his statements.

> I also believe this proposal is a good way of fixing this problem.

The working group debated it at length and did not agree.

Perry