On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Charles Lindsey wrote:
Well, as MFT is currently implemented, either it gets filled in by
the mailing list administrator (according to whatever the "list
policy" is), or by the original poster - something like
Mail-Followup-To:
me(_at_)mydomain(_dot_)example,list-address(_at_)list(_dot_)example
For a man who wants personal as well as list replies. But to
provide that funtionality conveniently requires the poster's MUA to
be configured with a list of known mailing lists, and how the MFT
is to be formed for each.
It would be better if there were a couple of keywords so you could say
Mail-Followup-To: poster,list
and configure that for all lists you subscribe to.
To be honest, I'd rather see some kind of 'best-practice for
Reply-To' document than MFT. Reply-To, in an ideal world, should work
just as well. The only reason for MFT, it seems, is just to avoid
bogus behaviour in MTAs wrt Reply-To.
I dont seem to having much success in my last mail asking whether
it'd be an idea to draft such a BCP document though. :(
Which is a shame, cause until that is done we'll either continue
having this discussion every now and then, or we'll see more and more
MUAs implementing ad-hoc solutions (odd 'list reply' buttons and MFT
headers). Anyway. :(
That presumes the MUA generating replies can figure out what
'poster' means (easy - use the Reply-To/From address) and what
'list' means (not so easy if there is no List-Post field).
Indeed.
That's probably not a good idea. Again more scope for confusion.
Actually, that is all beginning to look quite like the
Mail-Copies-To header sometimes used in News.
Right.
But it doesn't offer much extra though. (except that it avoids
current bad Reply-To behaviour in some MUAs). If we were to have a
new header like that i'd want it:
1. transitive (must be kept in replies)
2. additive (so people could add their own/further mailboxes to it,
if they wanted)
3. Get rid of that ambigious 'never' thing it allows
Then it would be a useful addition to the Reply-To header I think.
But that's me.
regards,
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