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From: Justin Sheehy <dworkin@ccs.neu.edu>
Subject: Re: doubling addresses when following up
Date: 30 Nov 1999 14:48:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vndn1rvzrp3.fsf@betelgeuse.ccs.neu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Vladimir Volovich's message of "24 Nov 1999 10:32:20 +0300"

Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> writes:

> To: someone@domain.com
> Reply-To: SomeOne@domain.com

Those are probably the same in reality, but could legally be different
addresses.

> When i followup to this message, gnus puts both addresses (one to To:,
> and one to Cc:). But these addresses differ only by case. Do RFCs say
> that email addresses are case-insensitive? If so, then gnus should
> ignore duplicated emails which differ only by case.

Gnus is acting correctly, as it cannot know that those are
equivalent.  If they are equivalent, then the originator of the
message should not have put that Reply-To header in.

-Justin

 


      parent reply	other threads:[~1999-11-30 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-24  7:32 Vladimir Volovich
1999-11-24 16:50 ` Shaun Lipscombe
1999-11-24 18:13 ` Toby Speight
1999-11-30 19:48 ` Justin Sheehy [this message]

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