On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Alan Barrett wrote:
(a) Reply-To specifies the complete list of recipients that the author
thinks should receive replies
while other people think that
(b) Reply-To specifies a list of recipients to be used instead of the
From address when directing replies.
[snip]
Meaning (b) of the Reply-To field is so deeply entrenched that I
think it would be impossible to get the world to use Reply-To with
meaning (a). So we seem to need a new field to have meaning (a).
Mail-Followup-To seems to fit the bill.
I would not be opposed to redefining Reply-To to have meaning (b). Many
people use it that way already.
FWIW, I entirely agree with Alan's view.
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