Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman(_at_)meetinghouse(_dot_)net <mailto:mfidelman(_at_)meetinghouse(_dot_)net>> wrote:
It strikes me that the real way to address some of these issues is
to add a few new headers to SMTP - to get rid of the overloading
of the From: and Reply-to: headers associated with mailing lists.
An SMTP extension that would absorb some of the well-known and
well-understood functions of list software.
[...]
I made that same suggestion on a different list. It seems as if that
suggestion was made long ago and the debate reached "religious"
proportions. One of the usual answers emerged, which was that it'll
take forever to get this deployed with sufficient ubiquity as to be
helpful.
I'm guessing that means we shouldn't try.
Can anybody comment on the process by which mailing list control headers
(RFC 2919 and 2369) were coordinated? Seems like there might be some
lessons to be learned.
Miles Fidelman
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