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Subject: Re: Generating Mail-Followup-To: headers
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Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> writes:

> I wonder why to-address isn't just a boolean meaning "use to-list for
> all followups."

That's a very good suggestion.  Why not allow `t' as a value in the
meantime?  Then the current semantics could be phased out gradually.

My guess as to why the feature isn't there is hysterical raisins.
Maybe to-address was there first, but then to-list was added because
to-address did too much.

kai
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