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Re: draft-moore-mail-nr-fields-00

2004-08-26 17:03:37



--On Thursday, August 26, 2004 4:55 PM -0700 Steve Dorner <sdorner(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com> wrote:

At 4:45 PM -0400 8/26/04, Keith Moore wrote:
For a receiving MUA to "honor" the -NoReply fields merely
requires that they be displayed.

Note that the mail clients used by a (large?  overwhelming?)
majority of folks will NOT do this.  Most mass-market MUA's
hide all but a select (and small) set of headers.

And, to add to Steve's comment, most of them have decided to do so in the light of overwhelming messages from customers that they don't want to see a lot of clutter. Few of those MUAs even manage to display Reply-to without being specially stimulated, so the expectation of their showing a new, and (at least initially) little-used, header is, I would think, not large.

    john