Re: test message,or reply's to, which worse?

[David W. Tamkin]

JC (Dill, not Lawrence) wrote,

| Hmmm.  It seems we have an opportunity to write an RFC that would spec a
| "reply-to-list" header and a "reply-to-author" header, and discuss how to
| implement selection of these two reply options in common email
| clients.

That is what DJB had in mind with Mail-Followup-To: (for replying to the
list) and Mail-Reply-To: (for responding to the author) headers.  (RFC2369's
List-Post: is Mail-Followup-To: in URL syntax.)  Adding X-List-Author-Reply:
with the sanctioned RFC2369 set wouldn't hurt either.

| When the reader has two "reply to" buttons active when reading
| any given list post, and can easily and quickly click on the appropriate
| button for the reply they plan to send (or even change it later, while
| composing, if the reply changes tone while they are writing), it would make
| it a lot easier for everyone to send the reply where they want it to go.

Oh, I don't know.  An RTS list gives you two such buttons, and people still
play pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey instead of engaging their brains.