On 9/8/2004 3:00 PM, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
Sometimes I want my response visible to everyone who read the original
message. In standard USENET terminology, that's a ``followup,'' although
I'd call it ``respond'' in an MUA.
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One thing I've noodled on is a "reply-to-list" option, whereby the MUA
recognizes that one of the addresses is a list address and provides an
option to reply to that address only. This would align mailing lists with
the usenet model pretty tightly, which is a reasonable goal, if not the
subject of immediate discussion.
Lots of problems with this, not least of which is that not everybody in
the larger recipient list is necessarily a member of one of the mailing
lists cited in the incoming message. Thus, this only works until somebody
outside the list is added, and then it stops working entirely. There are
also problems with filling in numerous gaps in the header/protocol space
needed for this to work, and so deferring the problem for a replacement
message/protocol is easiest.
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