On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:11:50PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Craig Sanders wrote: > > Mail-Followup-To is the correct header to use. > > Mail-Followup-To isn't even a registered header! The closest thing to a > registry that RFC822 implies is in the hands of SRI International is
the thing about internet standards such as the RFCs is that they tell you what you *must* do, and what you *must not* do. as long as you follow those rules faithfully you are free to implement as many other good ideas as you like. > http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/ietf/mail-headers/ > > (jpalme is as much of a member as one can be of the IETF RFC822 WG) > > which says that a "Followup-To:" header is from RFC 1036, but RFC 1036 is > for USENET messages, not email. The only thing I can think of is that > somebody liked the usenet idea of the followup-to: and just appended a > mail on it. Just because somebody breaks the standards does NOT mean that > everybody should. well done! it only took you a few years to catch on. that header has been in common usage for several years. btw, it's interesting that you mention Jacob Palme. take a look at the following document written by him in November 1997: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/98dec/I-D/draft-ietf-drums-mail-followup-to-00.txt Network Working Group Jacob Palme Internet Draft Stockholm University/KTH draft-ietf-drums-mail-followup-to-00.txt Expires: May 1998 November 1997 > > > The difference between pine and mutt is that you KNOW the > > > overflows in pine.... > > > > incorrect, again. the difference between mutt and pine is that > > mutt is a decent piece of free software that works and follows the > > relevant standards, while pine is a broken piece of non-free shit > > which doesn't. > > Horsefeathers! The Mail-followup-to: header is NOT a part of the > relevant standards! that wasn't what i said, and i in no way meant to imply that failure to implement an optional but well-documented and well-known header is what makes pine broken. pine is broken in numerous other ways. craig -- craig sanders