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Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-moore-mail-nr-fields-00.txt]

2004-08-30 10:49:50

In <412E6763(_dot_)50401(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> Keith Moore 
<moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> writes:

I'd rather avoid having a definition of Mail-Copies-To in email that 
differed from the definition used in usenet.

If there is something useful that could be changed in the usenet
definition of MCT in order to accomodate its usage in email, then it is
not too late to incorporate same into USEFOR.

I can imagine two ways to solve the problem:

(a) Reply-To with some magic address that is valid syntax but a no-op. 
maybe this:

Reply-To: nobody :;

But in the case of mailing lists, which is where this requirement most
often arises, that might also prevent replies being sent to the mailing
list (except in MUAs that had an explicit command for "Reply-To-List").

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