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From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb(_at_)cr(_dot_)yp(_dot_)to>
To: <ietf-822(_at_)imc(_dot_)org>
Keith Moore writes:
Actually some people are proposing blind acceptance. They want MFT to
be honored automagically, regardless of the content of the reply.
No. Mail-Followup-To does _not_ override the wishes of the user sending
the followup. It is simply a _default_ recipient list. The old de-facto
standard was
To+Cc+(Reply-To||From)
as the _default_ recipient list; the replacement is
Mail-Followup-To||(To+Cc+(Reply-To||From))
as the _default_ recipient list. The user is free to edit the list if he
wants something different---but we choose _defaults_ to save time for
the user in the common case that he's doing something predictable.
You say that some MUAs have bad list-editing interfaces: in particular,
they don't make the recipient list clear to the user. That's certainly
something to fix---no matter what the default recipient list is! You
keep bringing this up in a Mail-Followup-To context as if it were a new
problem; but the same problem existed long before Mail-Followup-To.
I may add there is also a consideration for a MUA where the reply fields are
not "editable," such as for online interactions.
D.J,
I am seriously thinking of adding support for Mail-Followup-To: if I can
understand it better.
Above you seem to agree that performing the default "common case behavior is
desirable. If so, I agree.
Currently a "Reply to Sender" goes to you. To respond to this list, I have
to to a "Reply to All." I guess may make sense. But here I have to remove
your address and I only "consciously" did so because I seem to recall an
message here from you where you indicated you don't want the direct mail
from a list. Maybe it was someone else, but in any case, my questions are:
Does MFT apply only to a mailing list?
If any, how will a MUA support MFT? How it is ergonomically offered to the
user?
Reply To List? --> Mail-Followup-To: | Reply-To: | From:
Reply To Sender? --> Reply-To: | From:
Reply To All? --> To+Cc+(Reply-To||From)
Follow-up? --> Mail-Followup-To: | Reply-To: | From:
If you added the Mail-Followup-To: then why not add the Reply-To:?
Thanks
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