From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13900 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Sheehy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mail-Followup-To Date: 10 Feb 1998 18:22:33 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153182 11771 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:33:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:33:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA23143 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:26:39 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA06689 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:23:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAN10664; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:59:49 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:22:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA25743 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:22:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 1182 invoked by uid 504); 10 Feb 1998 23:22:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1179 invoked from network); 10 Feb 1998 23:22:36 -0000 Original-Received: from linus.mitre.org (129.83.10.1) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 10 Feb 1998 23:22:35 -0000 Original-Received: from caffeine.mitre.org (caffeine [129.83.10.136]) by linus.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA20072 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:22:35 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by caffeine.mitre.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA08216; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:22:33 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "10 Feb 1998 16:24:24 -0500" Original-Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13900 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13900 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > Given the premise that a mailing list manager should not set a Reply-To > header, the lack of such a header means just that. The existance of > Reply-To means, "send the mail here instead of to the list". Um, no. The existence of a Reply-To: means, "IF you reply to me, send it to this address instead of the one in the From: header." It in no way makes a suggestion or mandate regarding someone's decision whether to followup or to reply. In a usenet post, the Followup-To: header has a meaning similar to that which you suggest if its contents are "poster". However, this is completely orthogonal to usage of Reply-to: headers. -- Justin Sheehy In a cloud bones of steel.