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Re: Understanding response protocols

2004-10-01 13:04:23

Bruce Lilly writes:
It appears that MFT proponents cannot agree what it is supposed to do

In fact, all of us are in perfect agreement as to what Mail-Followup-To
does: it replaces To etc. as the default followup target, in exactly the
same way that Reply-To replaces From as the default reply target.

Comments such as ``In this case, Mail-Followup-To includes both of the
crossposted lists'' are simply _examples_ of how senders commonly use
and benefit from Mail-Followup-To. They don't change the _meaning_ of
the field. The Mail-Followup-To field always means the same thing: it
replaces To etc. as the default followup target. Nothing more, nothing
less.

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago