Thursday, January 13, 2000, 9:15:03 AM, Angel wrote:
> maling lists et al. because of the reason stated above: hitting Reply or
> Reply-To for a "private" reply would send it to the entire list.
Personally this is a small nigglet, IMHO, with TB!. There have been tons
of arguments over whether or not mailing lists should set "Reply-To" or not.
I am a proponent of the mailing-lists setting it and won't get into why. But
based on that, I also think that email clients should recognize this and act
accordingly.
When hitting reply and the FROM differs from REPLY-TO the client should
ask which address to send to. I know that RFC822 states that REPLY-TO should
be used over FROM in cases like this. In fact, let me quote it here.
--- SNIP ---
4.4.4. AUTOMATIC USE OF FROM / SENDER / REPLY-TO
For systems which automatically generate address lists for
replies to messages, the following recommendations are made:
o The "Sender" field mailbox should be sent notices of
any problems in transport or delivery of the original
messages. If there is no "Sender" field, then the
"From" field mailbox should be used.
o The "Sender" field mailbox should NEVER be used
automatically, in a recipient's reply message.
o If the "Reply-To" field exists, then the reply should
go to the addresses indicated in that field and not to
the address(es) indicated in the "From" field.
--- SNIP ---
Operative word is "should", not must. Because of that, and the widespread
use of mailing lists, I think that the client should prompt the user on which
address they want to send to with the default being the reply-to. This gives
the user the ability to chose which address (public or private in the case of
a mailing list) to use without having to go through other steps like using
reply-to-all and trim the headers accordingly.
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