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Re: Confusing UAs considered harmful (was *Reply-to* considered harmful)

2005-06-07 02:55:52

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Keith Moore wrote:

However, most MUA implementations still treat Reply-to more as an "indication" of where responses are to be sent than as a "suggestion"

Aye. Quite annoying.

Entirely agree. And if we're going to have a new field for suggesting where replies go, it needs to be designed in such a way that it makes a useful suggestion for the recipient, rather than in such a way that recipient UAs are expected to process it automatically without human input.

I think the correct thing is for the header to contain information specific and pertinent to the person who inserted or added to it. Something about /their/ preference, and avoid assuming things about respondents by trying to suggest things to them.

Keith

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