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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Checking `Reply-To'
Date: 10 Mar 1997 06:21:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2g1y4jp90.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of 09 Mar 1997 17:59:16 -0500

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> tGBGnB> You can use `message-default-headers', but why on Earth do you want
> tGBGnB> to add a Reply-to header?
> 
> Read RFC-822 some time :).  There are plenty of good reasons to generate a
> Reply-To header.  The gist of it is that one uses a Reply-To header when
> the sender wishes to direct replies to a mailbox other than the one in the
> - From header.

Yes -- but that's only useful in very limited circumstances.  The user
wanted to add a Reply-To header that he seemed to want to have the
same contents as his From header.  Many people misunderstand the
meaning of From/Reply-To, and seem to think that if there is no
Reply-To in the mails, then people will be unable to reply to the
mail.

Most people don't need to use Reply-To, and those who do don't need to
ask about it.  :-)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen


  reply	other threads:[~1997-03-10  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-02-22  2:47 Hrvoje Niksic
1997-02-23  2:57 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-02-23  5:06   ` Steven L Baur
1997-02-28 23:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-03-01  6:11   ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-03-09 15:38   ` Nathan O. Siemers
1997-03-09 17:01     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-03-09 22:59       ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-03-10  5:21         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1997-03-10 23:38           ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-03-11  2:35       ` François Pinard
1997-03-11 14:35         ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-03-11 17:01           ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-03-11 17:45             ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-03-11 22:39               ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-03-12  1:05                 ` Sudish Joseph
1997-03-12 17:47                   ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-03-12 19:56                     ` Sudish Joseph
1997-03-11 18:46             ` Sten Drescher
1997-03-11 22:53               ` Stainless Steel Rat

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